Re: denying branch creation in a shared repository

["Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>]

On 2009.10.19 01:32:24 -0700, Mohit Aron wrote:
> I'm setting up a shared repository and I'd like to prevent users from
> creating branches in it (they can of course create local branches in
> their own clone of this repository). How can I accomplish this ? I
> looked at 'git help config' and it seems I need something similar to
> the parameter receive.denyDeletes - this prevents deletion of
> branches.

You could write a pre-receive or update hook (depending on whether you
want the whole push to fail, or just the branch head creation, see
githooks(5)).

If a ref is created, the old value is 40 0 (just zeros, forty of them).
And if the refname starts with refs/heads/, then a branch head is being
created. And in that case, you could refuse the push.

Björn