Preventing the push of specific commits

The pre-push hooks are triggered whenever you use the push command and the script execution happens before the push. So, we can prevent a push if we find a reason to reject it.

One reason could be that you have a commit with the nopush text in the commit message.

Getting ready

To use the Git pre-push, we need to have a remote repository. We will be cloning jgit again, as follows:

$ git clone https://git.eclipse.org/r/jgit/jgit chapter7.1
Cloning into 'chapter7.1'...
  remote: Counting objects: 2429, done
  remote: Finding sources: 100% (534/534)
  remote: Total 45639 (delta 145), reused 45578 (delta 145)
  Receiving objects: 100% (45639/45639), 10.44 MiB | 2.07 MiB/s, done.
  Resolving deltas: 100% (24528/24528), done.
  Checking connectivity... done.
  Checking out files: 100% (1576/1576), done.

How to do it...

We want to be able to push to a remote branch but, unfortunately, Git will try to authenticate through HTTPS for the jgit repository before the...