Link to mylyn task in Java comment (Eclipse)

Question

I have just started using Eclipse and Mylyn together, so I'm quite new to the workflow and how the tools and their features are intended to be used together.

Quite frequently I find myself wanting to write a comment in the code, usually a // TODO or similar remark, and reference a ticket in the Trac repository I've hooked myself up to via Mylyn. Currently, I just lookup the ticket number and write something like // FIXME: bug here, see ticket #18 in the comment.

Is there a way to make that link clickable, so that I can just click in the comment when I find one and it opens the ticket in Mylyn? And vice versa, is there a way to configure Mylyn so that when viewing a ticket I can see all comments referencing it?

Answer 1

Hyperlinks in comments should be available with the following patterns as long as you have a Trac repository defined in your Task Repositories view:

• ticket:128
• #512

You can see the regular expression used here.

You can link a project to a specific Trac repository from the project's Task Repository property page available from the Properties menu.