Automatically close Redmine Task with commit comment

Question

There is a feature (associated revisions) in Redmine to link commits with tasks with specific keywords typed in comment on commit:

Default keywords are:

* for referencing issues: refs, references, IssueID
* for fixing issues: fixes, closes

http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineSettings#Referencing-issues-in-commit-messages

When I make commits (from Visual Studio 2010 + Mercurial) to the repository, all referencing keywords are working fine but “fixing issues” keywords (fixes, closes) don’t change the status to “done”.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Log in as an admin and go to Settings -> Repositories -> Referencing and fixing issues in commit messages:

Make sure that:

• you have a status defined in the dropdown applied status
• you're using the correct keywords in your commit messages

The following examples will close an issue for the above settings:

• fixes #1234
• closes #1234

To have the issue get closed, redmine will have to read the latest commit messages. Usually redmine does this when clicking on the Repository tab. You may also configure a rake task which does this regularly.

Answer 2

Another answer to this is "not possible".

Redmine has distinct statuses of "resolved" and "closed". You can map a set of keywords to a single status, but you can't configure different keywords to different statuses. In other words, you can't configure "fixed" to mean status of fixed at the same time that "closed" means a status of closed. You can do either, but not both.