Feature Request: Workflow to create branch from issue

[krnlde]

Coming from Jira I really miss the possibility to create a [feature|hotfix] branch that matches the current issue with its name and ID. I suggest to put this workflow in the sidebar of an issue where the Assignees, Labels and Milestones reside.

The following workflow would be nice:

1. Create an issue "My Example Issue" with id 42
2. See a "Create Branch for Issue"-button in the sidebar
3. Click on it and choose where to branch from (e.g. develop)
4. define the branch-type according to gitflow (feature/hotfix)
5. Create the branch whose name will be inferred from the issue's information feature/my-example-issue-42 or choose your own name
6. git fetch on your local machine and see the new branch
7. switch to it, make the necessary changes described in the issue
8. See the number of commits to this issue in the sidebar
9. Create a pull-request for the branch directly from the sidebar

[rorybot]

I'm astounded this doesn't exist already.

[rstockm]

And tie it to the "Projects" board, as well. There are so many loose ends on GitHub in terms of workflow.

[galvani]

I have just spend 30 minutes searching how to do it :-) I thought I am dumb.

[andrewslavin]

@galvani +1.

I raised an issue on an open-source project, the author accepted it as a bug and asked if I could contribute by raising a PR. Coming from Jira/Bitbucket experience like @krnlde, I spent 30 min looking for a way to start a branch from my issue, and eventually ended up here...

[shubhamkulkarni]

I come from JIRA as well and use the same workflow as mentioned by @krnlde, which is much efficient.
How can we take this issue forward and request for the same?

[paesku]

used to gitlab every day, it surprised me to end up in this thread 👀 .

[kellymaker]

+1 on this. May be tricky as a Project is only loosely coupled....

[jkrenge]

+1

[gs377209]

+1

[krnlde]

Please stop spamming this issue with +1s. There is a thumbsup/-down feature for this if you really like to share your interest.

[m3ck0]

I needed kinda same behavior described, and recently came up with solution which may partially solve the problem, In addition I want to note that this no totally/exactly solves the problem originally described, but it may partially do it:

1. Open issue ("remove @-notification limit #23" for example)
2. Locally create branch from desired branch, as usual I name branch i{issue_number} (i23)
3. Once, i've done fixes for issue I create pull request and in the pull request body write "fixes remove @-notification limit #23"
4. This automatically closes "issue remove @-notification limit #23"

this process is described in this post and really helped me to partially automate such workflow. hope it helps you too

[maxdmayhew]

Please!

and include it in enterprise!

[MichaelMausbach]

Coming from gitlab, I couldn't believe that this function is not included in github. I would be great to have it.