Installing on Windows

Installing on Windows

The below instructions are unsupported. The installation files need to be updated.

For Windows users, msysgit is a good starting place for installing git.

Cygwin

For Windows users who wish to use the automated install, it is suggested that you install Cygwin first to install tools like git, util-linux and wget (with those three being packages that can be selected during installation). Then simply run this command from a Cygwin shell in your $HOME:

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

If you get the error "flags: FATAL unable to determine getopt version" error after

$ git flow init

you need to install the util-linux package using the Cygwin setup.

MSysGit

Download and install getopt.exe from the util-linux package into C:\Program Files\Git\bin. (Only getopt.exe, the others util-linux files are not used). Also install libintl3.dll from the Dependencies package, into the same directory.

Clone the git-flow sources from GitHub:

$ git clone --recursive git://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow.git
$ cd gitflow

Run the msysgit-install script from a command-line prompt (you may have to run it with "Full Administrator" rights if you installed msysgit with its installer):

C:\gitflow> contrib\msysgit-install.cmd

Note This will not copy the example hook files, only the needed executables.