jira and git linking up

Another option is to use JIRA -> FishEye -> Git

Admittedly, FishEye is another expense, but that might be preferable to messing around with plugins that only half work. FishEye also gives you a lot more information about your repositories.

Be aware that at present, the FishEye index (that is created from your Git repository) will take around 3x the space of the Git repository. Atlassian is looking into this and making some improvements in the area.

As you can see in this changeset, regarding the Jira Git Plugin you mentioned:

• JGit 0.5 will be out soon, with a Jira 4 compatibility built-in.
• For right now, you can try that GitHub repo, with Jira 4 support and branch support

Note (2011), as CharlesB mentions in the comments, the latest JGit versions have all Jira4 compatibility:

0.6 Release Notes (27/Mar/2011)

• migrated to v2 plugin system
• Jira 4.3 support
• web links for Gitorius and cgit

0.5.3 Release Notes (13/Feb/2011)

• Jira 4.2 fixes
• [...]

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0.5.1 Release Notes (15/Nov/2010)

• support for Jira 4.1
• tracking multiple branches