Referencing Jira tickets in GitHub PR bodies

[Tom Dalling]

According to this page, Jira issues can only be referenced 1) in a commit title, 2) at the start of a PR title, or 3) at the start of a branch name. The Git history is important to me, so I would prefer to keep Jira-specific workarounds to a minimum. Ideally, I want to be able to reference a Jira ticket in the body of a commit or PR, not the title, but Jira automations do not seem to detect these. Is there any way to get Jira automations working with issue references in the commit/PR bodies?

[João]

I have the same need.

Mainly to use the git traillers that already work with Github-issues for instance:

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Add Readme file

This is the remaining / body of commit.

After the separation line or just at the end lives the traillers.

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Github-issue: #61

Jira-issue: OP-22
Changelog: feature

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