It's easy to commit a jira task without entering the complete task title in the command line. Initially I wrote a simple script for my gender detection project that uses the jira api to fetch the required fields from the Jira server to generate a meaningful commit message but this script can simply be used for any other project.
Link to the script: https://github.com/markus-perl/git-jira-commit-message/blob/master/git-jira-commit-message
Edit the script and enter your credentials:
#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$username = 'Jira username';
$password = 'jira password';
$api = 'http://my.jira.url/rest/api/2/';
Now add the following line to the alias section in your .gitconfig file which is located in your home dir:
[alias] c = !sh -c 'git-jira-commit-message "$0"'
To commit a task just enter the task id. The script the title of the task to the commit message:
$ git c PR-1201
