Control Freak - Jira Policy Exemption to Ignore commit message... not working for hotfix branch

[Former user]

We have a policy in place that all commit messages must contain a reference to Jira ID (which are not further validated at this moment). Also there is an exemption defined for commit messages ending with [NO-JIRA] tag. The policy has been turned on for all types of branches.

This works well for master branch, but as soon as the commit is cherry-picked to a hotfix branch (with the same message), the Control Freak rejects it due to the missing Jira ticket reference - despite the [NO-JIRA] tag at the end.

The only way to make this work is to turn off the policy for hotfix branches.

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com]]

Hmm, sounds like a bug in the “[NO-JIRA]” handling. I’ll try to replicate this…

Meanwhile we’re also cooking up an idea to let commits through if they are patch-identical to commits that already got through (as long as the commit message is also identical).