Prevent direct commits on master branch in git repository and accept merges only?

Question

My git repository has two branches, \'master\' and \'dev\'.

Code committed to \'dev\' goes through an automated build process before it is tested. Code that passes this

Answer 1

You may want to use a commit-msg hook that checks whether the word merge occurs in the message for a tentative commit. Something like

grep -iq merge "$1" || exit 1

after a check for the branch. You may want to make the RE stricter than this. This is only a heuristic, of course, and anyone with write access to the central repo can circumvent this check.