Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

We want to be able to push to a remote branch but, unfortunately, Git will try to authenticate through HTTPS for the jgit repository before the hooks are executed. Because of this, we will create a local clone from the chapter7.1 directory, as follows. This will make our remote a local folder:

$ git clone --branch master ./chapter7.1/ chapter7.2
Cloning into ' chapter7.2'...
done.
Checking out files: 100% (1576/1576), done.
$ cd chapter7.2$ git branch* master

We are cloning the chapter7.1 directory in a folder named chapter7.2, and will check the master branch when the clone has finished.

What we now want to do is to create a commit with a commit message that has nopush as part of it. By adding this word to the commit message, ...