Assign git commit to github issue manually

Question

It is possible to assign existing commit to issue without using auto commit + issue integration (e.g. fixes #XXX, closed #XXX, etc. in commit title)?

Answer 1

Go on your commit and comment it with the *number of your issue** preceded by an hashtag (#6 for example). The commit will then be "referenced" in the issue timeline.

This is not the same as integrating the commit directly, but it gets closer to simply comment on the issue with the commit hash (which is also an alternative).

Answer 2

It is not a fully satisfactory answer, but I noticed if we paste a link to the commit into comment, github automatically will add it as link-reference to it as a short hash.

input:

https://github.com/user/Repository/commit/a49c5c587185d3bee80a32e7fc4f9ea4e94289a8

output:

a49c5c5