Commits do not appear as reference on issues

Summary

Referencing issues on commits does not work as on https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/crosslinking_issues.html#from-commit-messages.

Reproduced on gitlab.com.

Steps to reproduce

• Create a project
• Create an issue
• Push a commit referencing the issue number with #1 (Or corresponding issue number)
• Check the issue, no reference to commit is visible

Example Project

• https://gitlab.com/danieljg/ticket-mentions-empty-repo/issues/1
• https://gitlab.com/danieljg/ticket-mentions-merge/issues/1

What is the current bug behavior?

Issues do not have any reference to the commit

What is the expected correct behavior?

The issues should have a message as in:

Daniel Juarez @danieljg mentioned in commit <commit_hash>· 1 hour ago