Git flow command error: 'flow' is not a git command

Question

I am very new to Git and am starting to learn the command line version. I believe my git flow is not installed correctly. I am running this from a pc.

When i run following command:

git flow feature start JamesTest

I get the following error:

git: 'flow' is not a git command. See 'git --help'
Did you mean any of these?

Looks like the git flow command is not being recognized from all paths? How do I fix this?

`flow` is not a native Git command. It's more like a Git plugin or extension. What operating system are you on? — ChrisGPT was on strike, Feb 10 '15 at 18:54
Unfortunately, installing on Windows [is somewhat involved](https://github.com/nvie/gitflow/wiki/Windows). If you installed Git from http://git-scm.com/ you should follow the MSysGit instructions. — ChrisGPT was on strike, Feb 10 '15 at 19:29

score 48 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '19 at 16:36

The git flow is not installed in your machine. Just run this command,

macOS:

$ brew install git-flow-avh

Linux:

$ apt-get install git-flow

Windows:

$ wget -q -O - --no-check-certificate https://raw.github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh/develop/contrib/gitflow-installer.sh install stable | bash

Source git-flow cheatsheet by Daniel Kummer

After successful installation run git flow init in your project and then follow the instructions to configure the git flow.

Any difference between `brew install git-flow-avh` and `brew install git-flow`? — Blues Clues, May 20 '21 at 16:37

score 22 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 10 '15 at 22:58

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Git is installed but Gitflow is not. Gitflow is a Git extension and has to be installed separately.

Install it as described on GitHub and you should be fine ;)

answered Feb 10 '15 at 22:58

Luboš Turek

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '16 at 22:53

If you want to install Git Flow on Windows, do as follows (based on this instructions)

Clone the git flow repository

git clone --recursive git://github.com/nvie/gitflow.git

Download the getopt archive and extract the getopt.exe file to the location where Git executable is installed (something like C:\Programs\Git\bin)
Execute the following command, where the argument is the Git path installation (again, something like C:\Programs\Git). You don't need to specify the bin directory here.
```
contrib\msysgit-install.cmd "C:\Programs\Git"
```

And that's it. Check that all is working using the command git flow

Thanks, this is a much simpler set of instructions than the instructions in Lubos other answer :) — Daniel Tonon, Oct 12 '16 at 04:36

Osama Remlawi · Answer 4 · 2022-03-01T16:05:57.173

For mac users, just make sure git-flow is installed. If it is not installed, run these commands respectively:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install git-flow
export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH
git flow init

Sometimes even git-flow is installed, it doesn't work, all what you need is to export brew before using git flow:

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH

Git flow command error: 'flow' is not a git command

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