Re: automatically preventing merge commits on master

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> On 2008-10-13 you wrote:
>> Does anyone object to my installing a server-side hook
>> that would prevent pushing merge commits on master?
>> In our experience here (with gnulib.git), pushing a merge
>> commit is always unintentional.
>
> The one that I pushed today was unintentional again. Sorry about it. I
> think I did a "git rebase origin/master", but maybe at the wrong moment.

Hmm...
wondering why the commit hook didn't do it's job,
I found that the hooks/update script was not executable,
so was not running.  Fixed now.

Same problem with the one in idutils.git, but not coreutils.git.
Considering I did them all at the same time, I wonder how that happened.