[Bug] Different Behavior on "az repos pr create" and web interface

[gyssels]

Describe the bug When creating a merge from the interface ALL work-items from the git commit command are linked to the PR. while doing the command line the work-items need to be enumerated with the switch "--work-items" otherwise we need to do manually on the web interface afterward. It upset my team as we carefully enlist our work-items on commits. Some of my developers are stoping to link on commits... intruding bad behavior. please fix it soon.

To Reproduce -Azure-Devops extension version: azure-cli 2.0.81 * -Extensions: azure-devops 0.17.0

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. login using az login...
2. Commit changes to az git repos, link by adding the '#'+Work-item. Az DevOps website form will automatically link to the work-item
3. c:[project git directorie]>az repos pr create -t develop

[ToddRopog]

This is still an issue. Please fix this. It makes the az repos pr create command useless if you want the work items associated.

[darrenswart]

Here is a workaround I came up with. It searches through all commit messages in the current branch looking for messages that have included a work item number. It then validates it's a valid work item and produces an array WORKITEM_LIST that can be passed to the --work-items parameter of the az repos pr create command. For example az repos pr create --title myPR ... --work-items "${WORKITEM_LIST[@]}"

# Get list of all possible work items contained within commit messages by searching all commit messages in this branch that match the pattern #number(s)
POSSIBLE_WORKITEM_LIST=$(git log origin/master.. --grep='#[0-9]' --pretty=format:'%B' | grep -o '#[0-9]\+' | tr -d '#' | sort -f | uniq -i | tr '\n' ' ')
echo "Possible work item numbers are... $POSSIBLE_WORKITEM_LIST"
WORKITEM_LIST=()
# Loop thorugh the list of possible work items and confirm they are in fact valid work item numbers
for WORKITEM in $POSSIBLE_WORKITEM_LIST; do
  echo "Checking if $WORKITEM is a valid work item number ..."
  if az boards work-item show --id "$WORKITEM"; then
    echo "$WORKITEM is a valid work item number"
    WORKITEM_LIST+=("${WORKITEM}")
  else
    echo "$WORKITEM is not a valid work item number"
  fi
done

[FrancisEgan]

Looking for this to either happen automatically, or a workaround. We are using a pipeline to create develop -> main PRs for multiple different repositories at the same time, but work items don't get linked.