Question

Your team develops in a GitHub repository and tracks work in Azure Boards. Developers want commits and pull requests in GitHub to automatically link to Azure Boards work items so that the deployment/development section of each work item shows the related code changes. You have already installed the Azure Boards app for GitHub and connected the repository. What must developers do in their commit messages or PR descriptions to create these links?

Accepted Answer

Reference the work item using the syntax AB#123 in the commit message or PR title/description.

Answer

Reference the work item using the syntax #123, matching GitHub's native issue-linking syntax.

Answer

Add a GitHub label named azure-boards-123 to the pull request.

Answer

Include the full work item URL in a commit trailer prefixed with Fixes:.