The branch being pushed to is the first parameter to the update hook. If you want to lock the branch myfeature for pushing, this code (placed in hooks/update) will do it: #!/bin/sh

lock the myfeature branch for pushing

refname=”$1”

if [[ $refname == “refs/heads/myfeature” ]] then echo “XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” echo “You cannot push to myfeature! It’s locked” echo “XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX” exit 1 fi exit 0