Comment link to Jira ticket on GitHub Pull Requests Automatically

Kevin Brown_ccb91g

We have Jira and GitHub integrated such that Jira knows what pull requests have been created in GitHub.

How do I configure Jira to automatically add a comment to the GitHub pull request with a link back to the Jira ticket? It's easy enough to go from Jira out to GitHub, but getting back is not very smooth at the moment.

Kevin Brown_ccb91g

I ended up building a GitHub action to do exactly this: https://github.com/exogee-technology/action-jira-linker . Feel free to use it in your setup!

It tests if it can find a Jira issue with the pattern in your branch name, and if so, it comments a link back to the Jira issue like this: https://github.com/exogee-technology/graphweaver/pull/340#issuecomment-1980143906

You can configure a header and trailer on the comment.