TFS 2018 associating work item with commit without pull request

Question

we are using git in our on-premises TFS 2018 RC2 RTW

when we checkin our code we assiciate a work item by adding a hash and a number e.g. #8635

It is written in the docs that this should work with pull-requests. But in our case we do not neccessarly need pull-requests.

Is it possible to link commits with work items without pull-requests?

related:

• VSTS: How to get all linked work items since last successful release to production?
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2016/03/02/linking-work-items-to-git-branches-commits-and-pull-requests/

Update:

I just tested this on a different git project on the same team project.

Guess what: It's working as expected. Strange there needs to be something with this git project...

Answer 1

Go to http://<yourTFSinstance>/tfs/<TeamProjectCollection>/<TeamProject>/_admin/_versioncontrol, then select the repo in question, and switch to the Options tab. Make sure the appropriate checkmark is ON: