Re: pre-rebase safety hook

"Tim Harper" [off-list ref] writes:

Is anyone aware of a pre-rebase hook script that will prevent (or at
least warn) you from letting a rebase rewrite a commit that has been
pushed or merged into any branch except it's own?

I've activated the pre-rebase.sample, and it does seem to give me any
warnings at all:

Here's the terminal output demonstrating what I mean:

http://pastie.org/331082

The example script starts like this:

    #!/bin/sh
    # ...
    # This sample shows how to prevent topic branches that are already
    # merged to 'next' branch from getting rebased, because allowing it
    # would result in rebasing already published history.

As it says, it explicitly checks against 'next'.

The sample was written way before "branch --with" feature was added, and I
suspect what it does can be expressed more concisely in modern git.


If you want to prevent a branch whose tip commit is on more than one
branches from being rebased, I think something like this would suffice.

    #!/bin/sh
    LF='
    '
    in_branches=$(git branch -a --with "${2-HEAD}")
    case "$in_branches" in
    *"$LF"*)
	: this commit is on more than two branches
        exit 1
        ;;
    esac
    exit 0

But I didn't test it.