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....

[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.

[KevinMind]

Though. Someone could use the api to build this feature..... ;) See netlify cms. Any takers?

[m3ck0]

@KevinMind can you suggest some starting point?

[krnlde]

More specific: How do you integrate UI elements in the sidepanel to have a button that triggers the API?
AFAIK it is only possible to integrate via githooks.

[othreecodes]

This doesn't exist yet?
😞

[galvani]

it does not

[stritti]

every time I search this feature again ...

[klaussemarsse]

tried the same and ended up here. It would be really a good one feature

[magick93]

Gitlab FTW.

Github - time to up your game!

[zteater]

This is OOTB functionality with your competitors (GitLab, BitBucket + Jira, VersionOne).

[siulcode]

I am shocked by knowing that this feature does not exist.

[Falnesio]

https://blog.axosoft.com/gitkraken-git-gui-v7-3-github-issues

If you use GitHub or GitHub Enterprise issue trackers, you can now accomplish the following actions directly from the GitKraken Git GUI:

View GitHub issues 
Create filters for GitHub issues 
View GitHub issue details
Create branches tied to GitHub issues <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Edit the assignee(s) of a GitHub issue*
Edit the state of a GitHub issue*
Add/remove labels on a GitHub issue*
Comment on a GitHub issue*
Create new GitHub issues* 

*Paid features.

[endiesworld]

Create github branch from issue.

this is still not a thing as at 21st of Sept 2020.

[krnlde]

Still an issue in the private fork of issac and not github itself... 🧠

[pilkch]

Do the github developers use github?

[TomKJ]

Dear Github Community the "Create github branch from issue"-Feature would make things much easier.
I used also Bitbucket in my last company and was surprised that this feature doesn´t exist here in Github.

[alexmacniven]

I don't think this is a feature we're going to see on the web interface.

It has been implemented in the github extension for VSCode. I think it's far more likely to be implemented in cli/cli which is in (very) active development right now.

[miniscruff]

For those who have the new github cli I made an alias to create a branch locally.
gh alias set start 'gh issue view $1 | head -n 1 | cut -c8- | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]" | sed "s/ /-/g" | (echo -n $1- && cat) | xargs git checkout -b' --shell ( note that I am sure this could be simpler )
And then you can just do gh start <issue number>.

[SmaugOfErebor]

If I wasn't a freeloading user, I would totally complain that this feature doesn't exist.

[MagicUnderHood]

I'm still waiting for this feature

[zteater]

Now that the CLI is out, it seems like a logical place for this feature
https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_issue

[ghost]

Company is making the switch from GitLab to GitHub and can't believe this isn't a feature ..

[cosmikwolf]

This is my favorite feature of GitLab

[dioncodes]

Switched from GitHub to a self-hosted GitLab instance due to this missing feature... I don't understand why they still haven't implemented this feature yet.

[ghost]

Coming from Gitlab and Jira, this is a basic part of my daily workflow, please consider adding it

[bumbeishvili]

I just created Tampermonkey script for this feature

Here are the source and installation instructions - https://github.com/bumbeishvili/create-branch-from-issue

[tjwrona]

I just want to point out that this issue has the most likes out of every other issue on here and is over 3 years old... It should really be getting more attention.

This is officially the most wanted feature by the entire GitHub community.

[mcsantiago]

Wait, this is not a thing yet? I got so used to linking my branches in Jira that it did not occur to me that Github hasn't caught up.

[bumbeishvili]

Update about the extension - https://github.com/bumbeishvili/create-branch-from-issue

Awesome people added new functionalities to the script, now it's possible to choose source branch

[ajRiverav]

potential alternative: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/create-issue-branch (source @ https://github.com/robvanderleek/create-issue-branch)

[wasartin]

I find it hard to believe that the people at Github use their own project board. Because if they did, then they would have implemented this feature already.

[Ajisaputrars]

It is 2021 and still no such feature in GitHub?

[Shinigami92]

We should all move on to https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions instead of spamming here and not being heard

This issue should be closed and locked

[ajRiverav]

We should all move on to github/feedback/discussions instead of spamming here and not being heard

This issue should be closed and locked

agreed. Do you have a link to an existing issue in github feedback? So that people here can up-vote it.

[Shinigami92]

No, someone should just create one and we can all vote on it

[ajRiverav]

there we go.
I put it here community/community#3441

Let's all vote it up!

[krnlde]

Thank you guys!

Issue now continues over at community/community#3441