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I need some help with a Bash script that will automatically add the git's branch name as a hash in commit messages. ninjagecko Use the prepare-commit-msg or commit-msg githook . There are examples already in your PROJECT/.git/hooks/ directory. As a security measure, you will have to manually enable such a hook on each repository you wish to use it. Though, you can commit the script and copy it on all clones into the .git/hooks/ directory. shytikov Here is my commit-msg script as an example: #!/bin/sh # # Automatically adds branch name and branch description to every commit message. # NAME=$

To move the branch pointer of a checked out branch, one can use the git reset --hard command. But how to move the branch pointer of a not-checked out branch to point at a different commit (keeping all other stuff like tracked remote branch)? Adam A N.B. If you simply want to move a branch to another commit, the easiest way is git branch -f branch-name new-tip-commit as detailed by Chris Johnsen's answer . You can do it for arbitrary refs. This is how to move a branch pointer: git update-ref -m "reset: Reset <branch> to <new commit>" refs/heads/<branch> <commit> The general form: git update-ref

I have an idea of locking a repository from users pushing files into it by having a lock script in the GIT update hook since the push can only recognize the userid as arguments and not the branches. So i can lock the entire repo which is just locking a directory. Is there a way to lock a specific branch in GIT? Or is there a way an Update Hook can identify from which branch the user is pushing and to which branch the code is pushed? The branch being pushed to is the first parameter to the update hook . If you want to lock the branch myfeature for pushing, this code (placed in hooks/update )