The https://github.com/nvie/git-flow repository appears to be abandoned. The common wisdom is that Peter van der Does' AVH edition is the legitimate successor: https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh This fixes issue https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/416 Original-patch-by: Robert Dailey <rcdailey@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>