Jira issue number in git commit message

Question

At our company we are moving from svn to git. For issue tracking we use JIRA from Atlassian.

Now we want to enforce that every commit message contains an issue numbe

Answer 1

You can have server-side hooks as well, pre-receive-hook or something, however this is not obvious if you're used to github.

Failing that, I might consider providing an 'install-hooks' build option (as a rake task, make task, or whatever), although that would make me feel a bit 'dirty' because now my build is tied to the version control system...