I was in a team where the tooling required a JIRA ticket reference in the commit message. Of course, the JIRA project didn't have an actual ticket for the major

I was in a team where the tooling required a JIRA ticket reference in the commit message. Of course, the JIRA project didn't have an actual ticket for the majority of minor changes and fixes (and for that matter, adding one for every single commit in a 20-commit topic branch was tedious). Eventually the entire team was just adding "ticket 1" by default to every message. You can't solve a people problem with tooling. It can help, but ultimately if it's a pain point people will simply bypass it.