Git pre-push hook to confirm pushing to master

README.md

Git pre-push hook

It will check if current branch is master, then ask a confirmation, in case of master branch

Articles with initial info: https://dev.ghost.org/prevent-master-push/, https://coderwall.com/p/jp7d5q/create-a-global-git-commit-hook

Demo

http://imgur.com/a/EXGAW

To install

1. Enable git templates

git config --global init.templatedir '~/.git-templates'

2. Create a directory to hold the global hooks:

mkdir -p ~/.git-templates/hooks

3. Write your hook in ~/.git-templates/hooks

See file pre-push in this gist.

Copy it to ~/.git-templates/hooks/pre-push

4. Make it executable

chmod a+x ~/.git-templates/hooks/pre-push

5. In currently existing project, do reinit

git init

This will not overwrite existing commits, or existing hooks.

Done!

pre-push

#!/bin/bash
protected_branch='master'  
current_branch=$(git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -e 's,.*/\(.*\),\1,')

if [ $protected_branch = $current_branch ]  
then  
  
    echo -en "\033[31mYou're about to push master, is that what you intended? [y|n] \033[0m"
    echo -en "\033[1m"
    read -n 1 -r < /dev/tty
    echo -en "\033[0m"
    
    echo
    if echo $REPLY | grep -E '^[Yy]$' > /dev/null
    then
        exit 0 # push will execute
    fi
    exit 1 # push will not execute
else  
    exit 0 # push will execute
fi 

Important security note -- the above will give you a false sense of security and won't work for things like

git push -f origin e09b7418a310114f6aaf495f969c3859095a99af:master

Which was, in my case, the main cause of why I pushed to master by accident. Fixed version of the script is below and also in my fork:

#!/bin/bash

protected_branch='master'

if read local_ref local_sha remote_ref remote_sha; then
    if [[ "$remote_ref" == *"$protected_branch"* ]]; then
        echo -en "\033[1;33mYou're about to push to master, is that what you intended? [y|n] \033[0m"
        echo -en "\033[1m"
        read -n 1 -r < /dev/tty
        echo -en "\033[0m"

        echo
        if echo $REPLY | grep -E '^[Yy]$' > /dev/null; then
            exit 0 # push will execute
        fi
        exit 1 # push will not execute
    fi
fi

(Note you'll need to rm .git/hooks/pre-push && git init to make the repos pick the updated version.)

In any case, thanks for this -- it got me 50% of the way at least :)

Wow thank you for fixing this issue! That was very unclear for me until this moment :)

@mosra i have written a complete setup instruction (for mac) in this fork:
https://gist.github.com/sloev/9064296899ef8cd12d3061e569ee7064

content:

Git pre-push hook

It will check if current branch is master, then ask a confirmation, in case of master branch

install

1. install a recent version of git (https://git-scm.com/download/mac)
   eg:

   $ brew install git
   $ echo 'alias git="/us/bin/local"' >> ~/.zshrc

2. create global git hooks directory

   $ mkdir ~/.githooks

3. save the pre-push script beneith in ~/.githooks/pre-push
4. make it executable: chmod +x ~/.githooks/pre-push
5. tell git how to find it:

   $ git config --global core.hooksPath /Users/Someone/.githooks/

example:

$ foo@somewhere something  > git push
You're about to push to master, is that what you intended? [y|n] n
error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com:someone/something.git'
$ foo@somewhere something  >