Link GitHub to Jira

Question

I have followed this guide and set up a link between JIRA and GitHub https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/linking-bitbucket-cloud-and-github-accounts-to-jira-300814271.html

i can see all of my repos in DVCS accounts, when i sync it says it finds x  amount of issues. In GitHub i can see our JIRA account but I have no idea how to use it. I cant see any of the GitHub issue in JIRA? How do i map these and then comment and transition issues through GitHub?

Phil Brady · Answer

Hi Shawn,

Are there any guides on how to do the above? Can we automatically copy issues from JIRA to git?

Kind regards,

Phil

Shawn C · Answer

Hello Phil,

Unfortunately the DVCS Connector does not bring over Issues created in GitHub to JIRA. From the Using the DVCS Connector doc:

Using the DVCS connector, you can:

* Link all or a subset of your existing repositories (both public and private) to JIRA.
* Create new repositories and have them link automatically to JIRA.
* Create new branches in a repository, and see those branches in the related JIRA issue.
* Reference JIRA issues from a DVCS commit message and have those commits appear in the Development panel in the JIRA issues.
* Create new pull requests from a JIRA issue, and see all the related PRs in a JIRA issue.
* Transition issues through a JIRA Cloud workflow (for example, Close, Reopen, and so forth)  using smart commit messages.

-shawn