Can i set git push permissions for local machine?

Question

I know i can set permissions on GIT to deny users push access to the master branch, but I don't have access to set these permissions.

I still want to disable write access to the master branch for my developers machines. Is there something i can configure on their local machines to let them write to only one branch?

Answer 1

The ideal way would be to install gitolite on the central server, because you can then control those ACL from your workstation (by modifying the special admin repo 'gitolite-admin')

If this isn't possible, then you have to deploy a hook, like a pre-push hook (here is an example) in order to check the remote ref: if it is origin/master, then you can exit with 1 (fail), and that will cancel the push.

But that is a hook that need to be deployed for all the users, which is less convenient than having a centralized access control solution like gitolite.