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I'd like to have some way to prevent certain code from being committed in the first place.

E.g. when I have a line saying

    printf("debug: now at: %d\n", i); /* DONTCOMMIT */

then when I type "git commit ...", a script will be invoked that will recognize the "DONTCOMMIT" string, and it will abort the commit.

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Should be possible if you create a pre-commit hook, like this one https://gist.github.com/guilherme/9604324

Hmm, it uses "git diff" but in my case, this shows a few lines of context. So if the context contains "console.log" (and not the change itself), the script would still complain.

change it to look for DONTCOMMIT instead

You could use 'git diff -U0' which shows no lines of context. Or you could just search for "DONTCOMMIT" (which is what your example used).

As mentioned, should be doable with local or remote hooks.

Additionally, GitLab has push rules[0] that help preventing pushing secrets (based on filenames).

[0]: https://gitlab.adhoc-gti.com/help/push_rules/push_rules#prev...

Literally what client side pre-commit and on server end post-commit scripts are for

https://appventure.me/2016/04/04/prevent-accidental-test-cod...

Nitpick: this line

   if test $(git diff --cached -z $against | grep $marker | wc -c) != 0

may be changed to

   if git diff --cached -z $against | grep -q $marker

https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets

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