How to receive Subversion commits of an imported project using the "External issue ID"

Question

Hello,

I was wondering if I can use the "External issue ID" of imported projects. Imagine we have imported several projects from Mantis to JIRA. The importer plugin created the issues (e.g. ISSUE-14) and stored the old Mantis id in the "External issue ID" field (e.g. 8772).

The subversion plugin is already working for new commits including "ISSUE-14" in commit message. Old commits to subversion always included the following "Mantis ID 8772: this is my commit message".

Is it possible to connect these old commit messages to my JIRA issues using the subversion plugin? If not, are there any workarounds?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Michael

Deepa Pawar · Answer

Did you get any workaround for this ? We are trying similar thing for Redmine imported issues and want to link old commits. Only difference is - we have migrated SVN to GIT and git shows old commits for external issue id, not sure how to get that link in Development Panel.

Grant Pitel · Answer

We just transitioned our company to Confluence. We are using Mantis and will continue to do so until Atlassian fixes this major port deficiency.

We can't loose our correlation between issue number and code version number!

Laura Savičienė · Answer

I have asked the same question in support, and received an answer that there is currently no way to link JIRA issues to the commit other than by using the Issue Key, and they couldn't determine any 3rd party solutions for this either. However, there is a similar request - https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-39349 - You could vote on it.

Regards,

Laura