How can I avoid an accidental dcommit from a local branch

Question

Sometimes, I create local branches in git, and I\'d like to get a warning message when I try to dcommit from them.

How can I prevent myself from accidentally dcommit

Answer 1

First thing that comes in mind is using a git pre-commit hook to solve the problem. This would be easy for pure git repos:

• Lock remote branches (update hook): Is there a way to lock a branch in GIT
• Lock local branches (pre-commit hook): Locking a branch, so that it cannot be staged/committed into? (Only merged/etc)

But as discussed in Hooks for git-svn, this isn't fully working. VonC came up with an (accepted) answer where he utilizes an intermediate bare repo that acts like kind of a proxy between git ans SVN.

Maybe this could help you too.