Linking a pull request to an issue using a keyword is not working according to documentation

[jacob-carlborg]

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According to the documentation [1] it should be possible to link a pull request to an issue by mentioning the issue with a specific keyword in a commit message. But that doesn't seem to work, no link is created. I had Fix #123 in the commit message and also in the pull request title (automatically filled in by GitHub from the commit message), but it didn't link. When I updated the pull request description with the exact same keyword it did successfully linked the pull request to the issue.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/using-issues/linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue#linking-a-pull-request-to-an-issue-using-a-keyword

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[jekolbe]

I am facing the same problem. I was adding a "Closes #id" to the PR description. The PR merges from feature branch to develop.
I found that the official docs tell "The pull request must be on the default branch."

So obviously the linking seems to work only on the default branch