Jump to issue tracker from revision buffer

[Martin Geisler]

Hi all,

I notice that Magit highlights parts in brackets when showing commit messages. I typically use that for issue numbers, such as [FOO-123]. Would it be possible to have that be a link to the actual issue tracker? Something so that I can press RET when point is in the text and then have the browser open the relevant page.

I vaguely remember to have seem something about kind of functionality in the manual, but I wasn't able to find anything while searching for it now.

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Martin Geisler

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[Kyle Meyer]

Martin Geisler <mar...@geisler.net> writes:
>
> I notice that Magit highlights parts in brackets when showing commit
> messages. I typically use that for issue numbers, such as [FOO-123]. Would
> it be possible to have that be a link to the actual issue tracker?
> Something so that I can press RET when point is in the text and then have
> the browser open the relevant page.
>
> I vaguely remember to have seem something about kind of functionality in
> the manual, but I wasn't able to find anything while searching for it now.

You can get that by setting bug-reference-bug-regexp and
bug-reference-url-format. For an example, have a look at .dir-locals.el
in the Magit repo.

Your magit-revision-mode-hook should already include bug-reference-mode.
To follow the link, you can call bug-reference-push-button (C-c RET).

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Kyle

[Martin Geisler]

Awesome, thanks a lot! I was searching for things like "magit click issue number" and it did not occur to me to call this a "bug reference" :-)