Ensure that your pivotal tracker story ID is in your commit message using a git commit-msg hook

commit-msg

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# Put this in ".git/hooks/commit-msg" 
# and make it executable 
# chmod a+x ".git/hooks/commit-msg"

set -euo pipefail

MSG="$1"

if ! grep -qE '\[(([Dd]elivers|[Ff]ixes|[Ff]inishes) #[0-9]+|(#[0-9]+))([ ,]#[0-9]+)?\]' "$MSG";then
    cat "$MSG"
    cat << EOF

Your commit message must contain the a pivotal tracker story id in the format [#4576346] somewhere in the message"

Examples:

[Delivers #12345678]
[fixes #12345678]
[finishes #12345678]
[#12345884 #12345678]
[#12345884,#12345678]
[#12345678],[#12345884]
This will address [#12345884]
EOF


    exit 1
fi