rebase: allow a hook to refuse rebasing.

This lets a hook to interfere a rebase and help prevent certain
branches from being rebased by mistake.  A sample hook to show
how to prevent a topic branch that has already been merged into
publish branch.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-rebase.sh b/git-rebase.sh
index 16d4359830..f84160d324 100755
--- a/git-rebase.sh
+++ b/git-rebase.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ other=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$1^0") || usage
 # Make sure the branch to rebase is valid.
 head=$(git-rev-parse --verify "${2-HEAD}^0") || exit
 
+# If a hook exists, give it a chance to interrupt
+if test -x "$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-rebase"
+then
+	"$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-rebase" ${1+"$@"} || {
+		echo >&2 "The pre-rebase hook refused to rebase."
+		exit 1
+	}
+fi
+
 # If the branch to rebase is given, first switch to it.
 case "$#" in
 2)