Automatically close Redmine Task with commit comment

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Alexei picture Alexei · Sep 2, 2011 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

There is a feature (associated revisions) in Redmine to link commits with tasks with specific keywords typed in comment on commit:

Default keywords are:

* for referencing issues: refs, references, IssueID
* for fixing issues: fixes, closes

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineSettings#Referencing-issues-in-commit-messages

When I make commits (from Visual Studio 2010 + Mercurial) to the repository, all referencing keywords are working fine but “fixing issues” keywords (fixes, closes) don’t change the status to “done”.

Any suggestions?

Answer

marapet picture marapet · Sep 3, 2011

Log in as an admin and go to Settings -> Repositories -> Referencing and fixing issues in commit messages:

redmine settings

Make sure that:

  • you have a status defined in the dropdown applied status
  • you're using the correct keywords in your commit messages

The following examples will close an issue for the above settings:

  • fixes #1234
  • closes #1234

To have the issue get closed, redmine will have to read the latest commit messages. Usually redmine does this when clicking on the Repository tab. You may also configure a rake task which does this regularly.

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