How can I reference the affected version in a GitHub issue?

Question

How do I indicate that a GitHub issue affects version x.y.z?

I could create a label for each version and use that. But the default label values (duplicate, enhancement, invalid...) make me feel like I'm misusing that concept.

Answer 1

Everything in git is a commit, with the applied SHA hash code. So github naturally doesn't know anything of the versions you have. So what you can do is to add the SHA of the commit, which is affected by the issue. Github will link to that commit than. On the commit page GitHub acts quite reasonably: If the commit is only in one branch (which could be the branch of version x.y.z) GitHub notices that and gives you a hint on the commit page (top left says "refactor-sluggable-code", which is the branch):

Even better, if you have tags for versions (which is quite reasonably as well), it shows which tag includes the flawed commit (same position now says "2.4.0", which is a tag, that includes the commit):

(Pictures from https://github.com/blog/1451-branch-and-tag-labels-for-commit-pages)

This is unfortunately not shown in the issue tracker. So I would say creating labels for the versions is totally fine to give hints in the issue tracker and not a misuse at all.