Are you using git push for deploying the project to production or staging (for example, on WP Engine)? If the answer is yes, you might find the following gist handy. It’s a pre-push hook that will prompt a confirmation y/n question before pushing to remote but origin.
Once, I’ve sent the staging version to the production and never more.
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#!/bin/sh | |
# An additional confirmation if you really want to push to remote (prevents accidental pushes). | |
# | |
# This hook is called with the following parameters: | |
# | |
# $1 — Name of the remote to which the push is being done | |
# $2 — URL to which the push is being done | |
# | |
# Information about the commits which are being pushed is supplied as lines to | |
# the standard input in the form: | |
# | |
# <local ref> <local sha1> <remote ref> <remote sha1> | |
remote="$1" | |
url="$2" | |
# If we have a STDIN, use it, otherwise get one | |
if tty >/dev/null 2>&1; then | |
TTY=$(tty) | |
else | |
TTY=/dev/tty | |
fi | |
# http://djm.me/ask | |
ask() { | |
while true; do | |
if [ "${2:-}" = "Y" ]; then | |
prompt="Y/n" | |
default=Y | |
elif [ "${2:-}" = "N" ]; then | |
prompt="y/N" | |
default=N | |
else | |
prompt="y/n" | |
default= | |
fi | |
# Ask the question (not using "read -p" as it uses stderr not stdout) | |
echo -n "$1 [$prompt] " | |
# Read the answer | |
read REPLY < "$TTY" | |
# Default? | |
if [ -z "$REPLY" ]; then | |
REPLY=$default | |
fi | |
# Check if the reply is valid | |
case "$REPLY" in | |
Y*|y*) return 0 ;; | |
N*|n*) return 1 ;; | |
esac | |
done | |
} | |
# Test the push branch | |
while read local_ref local_sha remote_ref remote_sha | |
do | |
# Exit if pushed to origin | |
if [ "$remote" != "origin" ] | |
then | |
# Check if not pushing accidentaly | |
printf "\n" | |
if ask "Do you really want to push to $remote?"; then | |
printf 'Pushing.\n\n' | |
else | |
printf "Cancelling.\n\n" | |
exit 1 | |
fi | |
fi | |
done | |
exit 0 |