If you want to prevent anybody from mistakenly commit or push to your master or develop branch. This is going to be one of your solutions.

• Your github repo is set as public, use built-in protected branch feature instead.
• You are using gitlab or bitbucket repo, use their built-in branch permission setting instead.

Note: preventing a push to a certain branch is recommended to be handled from server side.

• You are using github.
• Your repository is set as private.
• You don't want to pay for just using protected branch feature.
• You don't want to distribute your pre-commit and pre-push script manually to everybody in your repository.
• You want to apply local-check before somebody push or commit to a certain branch.

These bash scripts are basically similar to the one that is located inside .git/hooks/. However we will tweak it and put it inside our repository and the scripts will be called by husky https://github.com/typicode/husky (Husky can prevent bad git commit, git push and more 🐶 woof!) so it will be distributed to all members in your repository.

These scripts will be executed everytime there is a push or a commit to your repository.

This script will block anybody who tries to push to a certain branch (in my case I don't want anybody -including myself- to push directly to master and develop branch). They need to work in their own branch and then create a pull request.

This script will block anybody who tries to push to a branch that is different from their current active branch. For example you are in branch fix/someissue but then you mistakenly type git push origin master.

This script will block anybody who tries to commit to a certain branch (in my case master and develop branch).

This script will block anybody who tries to commit to a branch that has ascii character in it.

This script will block anybody who tries to commit to a branch that has upper case character in it.

I will try to explain from the very begining.

npm install husky --save-dev

if you cannot run npm, you need to install nodejs and npm in your system first. Read this https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm

This file will be located in the root directory of your repository.

Open package.json file using vscode or sublime or atom or any text editor (vim / nano if you are using terminal) and add this several lines after dependencies:

"dependencies":{
    ...
},
"husky": {
    "hooks": {
        "pre-commit": "./commands/pre-commit",
        "pre-push": "./commands/pre-push $HUSKY_GIT_STDIN",
    }
}

You may combine the process with lint-staged or commitlint (optional). If you do, your package.json may look something like this:

"dependencies":{
    ...
},
"husky": {
    "hooks": {
        "pre-commit": "./commands/pre-commit && lint-staged",
        "pre-push": "./commands/pre-push $HUSKY_GIT_STDIN",
        "commit-msg": "commitlint -E HUSKY_GIT_PARAMS"
    }
},
"lint-staged": {
    ...
},

Read here for full instructions of how to prepare linting to your repository:
(Laravel + PHP CS Fixer + Prettier + ESLint + airbnb-base + Husky + lint-staged + commitlint + pre-commit hook + pre-push hook)
https://gist.github.com/christchan/4459e9095dac0e21aae996dde2fb788b

...
node_modules/
commands/
|- pre-commit
|- pre-push
package.json
...

These default scripts are suitable for my needs, however it may need adjustment for others, feel free to adjust and let me know if there is a better way to do.

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Enjoy!
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