breaks when trying to transition an issue to new state

[faheemmughal]

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Found issue XX-989 in 'Xtra Awsome'
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Switched to a new branch 'XX-989/urgency-based-queueing-system'
/Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jira-ruby-1.0.0/lib/jira/request_client.rb:16:in `request': Bad Request (JIRA::HTTPError)
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jira-ruby-1.0.0/lib/jira/client.rb:208:in `request'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jira-ruby-1.0.0/lib/jira/client.rb:201:in `put'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/jira-ruby-1.0.0/lib/jira/base.rb:351:in `save!'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/git-whistles-1.3/bin/git-jira-branch:75:in `main'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/git-whistles-1.3/lib/git-whistles/app.rb:23:in `run!'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/git-whistles-1.3/bin/git-jira-branch:130:in `<top (required)>'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/bin/git-jira-branch:22:in `load'
	from /Users/faheem/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/bin/git-jira-branch:22:in `<main>'
➜  git:(XX-989/urgency-based-queueing-system) ✗

The issue didn't transition to In Progress.