Prevent git pushes directly to master. Install to .git/hooks/pre-push

pre-push

#!/bin/sh
 
# Pre-push hook to prevent pushes to master branch.
 
pushed_branch=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`
 
if [[ "$pushed_branch" == "master" ]]
then
  echo "[Notice] Pre-push hook preventing push to master. Create a feature branch instead."
  exit 1
fi

Note that this needs chmod 700, and on my box, requires #!/bin/bash, not #!/bin/sh

Other than that works great, thank you for finding this!