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Development Tools Git Basics Workflows Git-Flow

Posted by Lauri Neuding
Lauri Neuding
13,525 Points

Git flow onto git bash a total fail

I am using git bash (for Windows) installed as instructed early on in the course. There have been a few bumps but I managed to work through them with research and help from prior questions. However, installing git flow has been a total, frustrating failure. The instructions on gitHub were unwieldy and when I tried to follow them (going so far as to install Cygwin) I utterly failed in both cygwin and git bash with results like "command not found" with everything I tried.

5 Answers

Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points
Todd MacIntyre
Todd MacIntyre
12,248 Points

Lauri, my version of git bash included gitflow with it - no additional downloads necessary. I am using git version 2.7.1.windows.1

If you have an older version of git bash, I might suggest downloading this newer version and giving it a try.

Janice Childers
Janice Childers
18,958 Points
Janice Childers
Janice Childers
18,958 Points

Did you ever solve this? I also tried following those directions and am totally mystified.

Rachelle Wood
Rachelle Wood
15,362 Points
Rachelle Wood
Rachelle Wood
15,362 Points

I am having the same problem. I installed cygwin and used (even copied pasted the command) in HOME using the Cygwin shell but bash does not recognize the wget command. Any ideas?

Ted Sumner
PLUS
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

I have found all of the GUI based git products too much trouble. I recommend learning and using the command line. it is much easier and less frustrating.

Lauri Neuding
Lauri Neuding
13,525 Points

I was using bash, not GUI. I did not find the lessons difficult. In fact, they were a lot of fun. The only trouble I had and failed at was installing Git Flow. Well, except for a few but-what-do-you-do-on-Windows times that I solved.

Ted Sumner
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Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

I misunderstood. Check out this site: http://danielkummer.github.io/git-flow-cheatsheet/