There are "hooks" in git that can be used to modify its behavior, to e.g. "spit out a warning if you created a branch and then try to commit to master"
> "spit out a warning if you created a branch and then try to commit to master"
How this one may be done? It sounds wonderful but I have no idea how to implement such thing (and if not included in git already, I hope that I can reuse code rather than reimplement it)
#!/bin/sh
BRANCHES_POINTING_TO_HEAD=$(git branch --contains HEAD |wc -l)
CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
if [ "$BRANCHES_POINTING_TO_HEAD" -gt 1 ]; then
if [ "$CURRENT_BRANCH" = "master" ]; then
echo "You're committing to master even though other branches exist."
echo "override with git commit --no-verify"
exit 1
fi
fi
You'll need git 2.22 for the --show-current git option.
$ git checkout <new_branch>
<new_brach> doesn't exist. Would you like to create it (Y/n):
The real problem with "git" is just way too many options. For automated tools there can be a "-n" non-interactive option that fails with an error code and doesn't ask questions.
This seems to be a good resource https://githooks.com/