Enable code

The code feature gives you greater visibility of your team's work by automatically connecting and displaying your code repositories in your project.

Enable code for your team-managed software project

1. Navigate to your team-managed software project.

2. Go to Project Settings > Features.

3. Enable the Code feature.

A new menu item, Code, will be added to the project menu.

Connecting your team’s repositories

The code feature will display all the repositories your team has connected to the current project.

You can connect a repository to a project by including issue keys at the beginning of your branch names, commit messages, and pull requests. Here’s how:

1. Find the key for the Jira issue you want to connect to, for example “JRA-123”.

2. Checkout a new branch in your repository, using the issue key at the beginning of the branch name. For example, git checkout -b JRA-123-<branch-name>.

3. When committing changes to your branch, use the issue key at the beginning of your commit message. For example, git commit -m "JRA-123 <summary of commit>". You can also include the issue key at the beginning of the pull request title.

After you commit your changes or push your branch, go to Code in the project menu to see the connected repository. It can take a few minutes for the connection to complete.

Learn how to reference issues in your development work and read more about integrating Jira Software with your development tools.

Code settings

You can navigate to the code settings from the More options (•••) menu on the top-right corner of the page.

For example, if you have GitHub installed, select Github settings to manage your app integration.