Work Note: git flow feature start fails

This morning I was creating a new branch to start work on a new feature and I use git flow.

To start a new feature you type…

git flow feature start FeatureName

After typing that and pressing enter git flow complained that it was initialized and I should run the command…

git flow init

I’ve been working in this same environment for two years. I know git flow is configured, but like a good automaton I followed the directions. Of course, you can guess what happened, right? Yep, git flow init says “Hey, you’re good to go!”

I wasn’t. My commands still failed with the same message.

Luckily there is a fix.

Yep, that’s right, cd into the .git directory for that repository and remove all git flow references from your git config file. Then run git flow init. All better.