Show Jira message in commit history

Question

Our expirience shows, that it's hard for many developers to select a short and descriprive commit message at the time of pushing. So, we want to try using a link or Jira issue code as commit message and we expect to see commit descriptions, received from Jira, in Bitbucket commit history

Are there settings or plugins to do that?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

Hey @Vadim Shcherbakov

First, the Better Commit Policy Connector app solves the enforcement part of the developer workflow. It enforces your developers to enter valid Jira issue keys to the commit messages.

You can restrict the work item keys accepted using JQL, you can configure the number of keys required (one, one or more, etc.). So it is configurable and powerful:

And then, looking at the commit history, you can just click links in the "Issues" column to see a "compact" view of the corresponding issue right in Bitbucket:

This app is developed by our team. We are using it to enforce a valid issue key, but also to enter at least N non-whitespace characters more to the commit message (as the "body").

Vadim Shcherbakov · Answer

No, I'm expirienced Bitbucket user and certainly know, where to see commits history of a file or an overall repository.

Nikola Perisic · Answer

To confirm, you are looking for commit history of the file within the Bitbucket?