TFS check-ins synchronization - NEW

Associating Check-In With a JIRA Issue

Associating using a check-in comment 

Associating a TFS check-in with a JIRA issue is very simple and straightforward. The only thing that you have to do is type an issue key as a part of your TFS check-in / Git commit message, as shown below.

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This is the standard JIRA way of associating sources with issues, the same method is used in other types of source code repositories (e.g. Subversion).

Associating using a check-in note

It is also possible to associate a check-in with a JIRA issue by typing an issue key as a part of any check-in note associated with the check-in. Name of the check-in note is not important - all notes are scanned, but it may be a good idea to name the check-in note accordingly and perhaps even make it mandatory in order to enforce a JIRA integration policy.

Associating using TFS Work Item

If you have properly set up your synchronizer application to perform TFS-JIRA issues synchronization and (in case of JIRA Cloud environment) exposed it to web requests from the internet (see Settings for JIRA Cloud), associating check-ins with JIRA issues is even easier - actually it is fully automatic. All you need to do is associate your check-in with a TFS work item and the Synchronizer will take care of the rest - it will find the work item's matching issue and when you open that issue it will display the changeset.

Viewing Changesets in JIRA

Once you associate the check-in with a JIRA issue you can view details of the checked in changesets in TFS check-ins tab on JIRA issue's view screen.

In addition to checked-in files, you can also view check-in comment and any non-empty check-in notes:

Elements of each changeset associated with an issue are clickable links.

You can also view check-ins associated with all issues in the JIRA project by navigating to TFS Check-ins project tab