Jira Smart Commits Not Running Commands

Question

My Jira Smart Commits are correctly being tracked by a Jira Ticket

but my commands are not being executed. Example commit I'm attempting to get executed by Jira Smart Commits:

$ git commit -m "Foo-2 Fake commit where I moved a task from Backlog to In Progress #time 1h $in-progress"

I've read through all the documentation listed here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-smart-commits-298979931.html

Note, the link above may require an atlassian login. Since I'm answering my own question immediately, I'm providing the link above for completion sake.

Answer 1

This took longer than I'd care to admit. This link here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Core-questions/Smart-commit-not-working/qaq-p/387358

Has described exactly the problem I was running into. Quoting the important text for completeness:

...if there is no email in the commit matching any jira user it won't work (gets rejected).

I was getting a silent rejection from Jira, because the email on my Github account, seen by running $ git config --global user.email, did not match the email address on my Jira account.

The silentness of this issue was what got me, as you can see above, I was able to attribute commits to specific Jira tasks without having a matching email address.

I hope this saves at least one person a massive headache and confusion.