annotate-git-commit

I got into the feature branch workflow back when I was using Mercurial. I’ve since discovered that Mercurial’s branches aren’t really suitable for short-lived branches and switched to Git for a variety of reasons, but I still wish my commits carried with them metadata about what they were related to.

I also still wish my VCS had a sane UI, but that’s an unrelated topic.

Anyway, my Git branches, when I’m working with a ticketing system, usually carry in their name a ticket identifier in an easily parseable format. I wrote a small too for extracting that ticket identifier and pasting it to the bottom of my commit messages: annotate-git-commit. You can use it with Git’s prepare-commit-msg hook.