I know that you can associate workitem with #1234commit message syntax .
#1234
Is there a way to change the status of a work item this way. Tell me, allow?
There is currently no way to do this. However, I expected to see things that happen along the line, since MS was committed to establishing parity, where possible, with TFVC.
As stated in this article, we can use #IDlinks to work items.
#ID