Jira + Bitbucket + SourceTree + gitflow - how to use sourcetree's gitflow features while creating branches in JIRA?

[Jeremy Marquis]

In SourceTree, I can use the gitflow button to start/complete features, hotfixes, etc. and it will automatically handle a lot of the gitflow details (and is well organized). However, this creates local branches and does not link them to JIRA issues.

In JIRA, I can create a branch from an issue. This branch is remote (in Bitbucket) and so there is no clear way to use the nice gitflow features of SourceTree.

How can I use both JIRA-initiated and tracked branches with the gitflow features of SourceTree?

[Valerii]

SourceTree's gitflow feature look like very useful.

But in our Bitbucket - each branch has permissions and any changes should  be passed to branch via pull requests. So in this way - we can not use SourceTree gitflow features (because we need pull requests instead of merges)

It would be great if:

• "Finish feature" button - create pull request instead of local merge
• "Finish hotfix" button - create pull request to master and develop branches instead of local merges.
• etc.

[vishal_mobit]

Here is a link to the potential solution if  anyone is still wondering: 
https://wiki.afm.co/display/PUBL/How+to+work+with+git-flow%2C+SourceTree+and+JIRA

[Daniel L. Polanco]

This looks like the answer or pretty dang close to it. Thank you.

[Oleg Bagmet]

• "Finish feature" button - create pull request instead of local merge
• "Finish hitfix" button -create pull request to master and develop branches instead of local merges.

+1

[Dmitry Maslov]

+1 

• "Finish feature" button - create pull request instead of local merge
• "Finish hitfix" button -create pull request to master and develop branches instead of local merges.

[Nikos Perpinias]

I am new to Jira/Git/Bit/SourceTree world but I believe this is a great question and addition to sourceTree

[Denys Grybov]

+1

• "Finish feature" button - create pull request instead of local merge
• "Finish hitfix" button -create pull request to master and develop branches instead of local merges.

[Maksym Bugai]

+1 "Finish feature" must be create pull request. Otherwise, the "finish feature" is meaningless.

I have no idea why so did SourceTree

[Jeff Reese]

I would also love to see an answer to this...

[Jeremy Marquis]

I am new to all these tools and also git. I have only figured out 2 ways, neither particularly clean, intuitive, or satisfying, so I am hoping an expert can help me.

The first way is to create the branch in JIRA but don't check out from Bitbucket, then in SourceTree use gitflow button to create a new feature and change the source from the default to the new remote branch. The annoyance with this is that you have to remember to manually change the repos that pushes go to, every time, to the remote branch (and easy to make a mistake).

The second way is to create the issue branch in JIRA, checkout from bitbucket (which creates a local copy of the remote branch), and then use SourceTree gitflow to create feature/bugfix branches from this issue branch. The problem is that now you have a pointless intermediate branch that makes it harder to push your updates through the chain.