How many times have you blamed your own laziness having found some highly meaningful check-in comment, like "fixed" or "done"? Even if you knew what it meant at the time of writing, after a while you will be unable to recall what has been done and why, and whether it reduces the backlog of your bugs or not ...

IntelliJ IDEA [1] leaves you no excuse for not writing check-in comments. You have to configure navigation to your issues tracker just once. Then, every time you commit your changes, type a matching string - IDEA will take care of replacing it with a link to the respective issue.

Let's look how it's done. First, open the Version Control dialog (Ctrl+Alt+S, 3) and in the Issue Navigation tab define a regular expression, describing your typical comment. For example, such comment can contain a number of letters and digits, separated with a dash, to denote project code and issue number: [A-Z]+\-\d+. Next, type an expression that will replace matching strings in your check-in comments and provide navigation to the issues.

Now, when you commit your changes related to an issue, enter issue number to match the regular expression:

When later you will look through the changes in the repository, you will be able to easily jump from the check-in comments to the related issues in your tracker: