Connect Pull Requests to Issues (non-default branch)

[jeremy-langevin-twc]

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I'd like to automatically connect pull_requests to my Github Issues on my Projects board. Many of my pull_requests are into my develop (non-default) branch, therefore I cannot use comment/description-based linking. I already have an action that finds the Issue related to the PR by title, and carries over the labels and milestone, but I cannot connect the PR to the issue. Is there a way to accomplish this programmatically?

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[Alex-ley-scrub]

We need this so badly - how is it possible in the UI but not via GitHub Rest/GraphQL API?!

see meta issue: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/186495