From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:38:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Preventing merges from one branch into others
Message-ID: <7v8v6z7w38.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130207131440.716c1022@bigbox.christie.dr>

Tim Chase <git@tim.thechases.com> writes:

> ...  I didn't
> see any sort of "pre-merge" hook script.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/94111/focus=71069

I think yours is a canonical example of "I do not want to run
command X when these conditions hold", when "these conditions" can
be checked locally _before_ you decide to do X.

While it is theoretically possible to give X a pre-X hook in such a
case, we do not want it to be the first choice to avoid hook bloat.