{"id":31391,"date":"2011-10-12T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/github.blog\/\/2011-10-12-introducing-issue-mentions\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T00:04:16","slug":"introducing-issue-mentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/github.blog\/news-insights\/the-library\/introducing-issue-mentions\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Issue Mentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blog\/831-issues-2-0-the-next-generation\">Issues 2.0<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/github.github.com\/github-flavored-markdown\/\">GFM<\/a>, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"815\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Screen20shot202011-10-1120at206.36.1720PM.png?resize=815%2C100\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned issue will link back to the commit:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"807\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Screen20shot202011-10-1120at206.37.5920PM.png?resize=807%2C82\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Now, the same is true when you mention an issue or pull request from another issue.<\/b> For example, this issue mentions pull #1748:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"808\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Screen20shot202011-10-1120at206.39.4320PM.png?resize=808%2C323\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>The pull request will now link back to the mentioning issue:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"809\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Screen20shot202011-10-1120at206.41.0620PM.png?resize=809%2C90\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Issues 2.0 and GFM, it is easy to link to users, issues and commits from issue comments: You can also mention issues directly from commit messages, and the mentioned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1516,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gh_post_show_toc":"","_gh_post_is_no_robots":"","_gh_post_is_featured":"","_gh_post_is_excluded":"","_gh_post_is_unlisted":"","_gh_post_related_link_1":"","_gh_post_related_link_2":"","_gh_post_related_link_3":"","_gh_post_sq_img":"","_gh_post_sq_img_id":"","_gh_post_cta_title":"","_gh_post_cta_text":"","_gh_post_cta_link":"","_gh_post_cta_button":"","_gh_post_recirc_hide":"","_gh_post_recirc_col_1":"","_gh_post_recirc_col_2":"","_gh_post_recirc_col_3":"","_gh_post_recirc_col_4":"","_featured_video":"","_gh_post_additional_query_params":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3321,3338],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-31391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-insights","category-the-library"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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