Git pre-push hook to enforce branch naming conventions

pre-push

#!/usr/bin/env bash
LC_ALL=C

local_branch="$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)"

valid_branch_regex="^(task|master|develop|qa|tb|bug|story)[a-z0-9._-]{2,10}$"

message="This branch violates the branch naming rules. Please rename your branch."

if [[ ! $local_branch =~ $valid_branch_regex ]]
then
    echo "$message"
    exit 1
fi

exit 0

This file has to be placed in a .githooks directory inside your Git repository root folder. While in the repository root folder, run git config core.hooksPath .githooks to set the newly created .githooks folder as the default .githooks folder.