Fatal: Not a gitflow-enabled repo yet. Please run 'git flow init' first

Question

I cloned a project and ran git checkout -b develop. When I run git flow feature start feature_name it gives me the following error:

Fatal: Not a gitflow-enabled repo yet. Please run 'git flow init' first.

can any one help me?

Answer 1

I got it working by doing the steps mentioned by jpfl @ answers.atlassian.com:

Although this is an old post, just wanted to add to this since I've gotten stuck on this same error. Was able to resolve by doing the following:

1. Open the .git\config file OR Repository -> Repository Settings -> Remotes -> Edit Config File (Sourcetree 2.7.6)
2. Remove all the [gitflow * entries and save the file
3. Close and re-open SourceTree
4. In the main menu, go to Repository > Git Flow > Initialise Repository (should be enabled now)

Answer 2

You have to init the git flow on your local repo.

GitFlow are local scripts on your machine and each repository has to have teh metadata (in the config) to use it.

simply run :

# launch the git flow wizard
git flow init


# Use git flow with default values
git flow init -d

And you are set to go.