Jira & GitHub: Do Branches/PRs/Commits have to start with the Jira Key?

[Nick B]

The team here uses Release Please and has a standard to put fix/feature/etc. at the beginning of branch names and PR titles. So, if we connected Jira and GitHub would the linking still work if the Jira issue key, "DEV-1234", wasn't at the beginning and was something more like fix: DEV-1234: Changed Sorting for a PR or feature/DEV-345 for a branch?

[Shawn Doyle - ReleaseTEAM]

Hi @Nick B 

From my experience Release Please works more off the commit messages than the branch name.  What does work via the branch name is the integration between Jira and GitHub, when doing a pull request it will look for strings in the branch name for Jira tickets to associate with the request, you can have multiple and it doesn't need to be the first part of the string, however, I often set that as a standard as it makes the branch names have a unified look.

So yes, it should still work.