I wonder if Atlassian encourages and sells this as an ideal use case [for JIRA]. What a great way to make it really painful to leave their system if in order to

I wonder if Atlassian encourages and sells this as an ideal use case [for JIRA]. What a great way to make it really painful to leave their system if in order to make sense of your repo history you to need to maintain the references to their system. They are making your repo dependent on their ticket system...