Extension won't detect gitflow files

[Aichan]

Hello,

I've had the GitFlow extensions working for 3 months now but today I noticed it wasn't working anymore.

It couldn't detect my Git installation folder, (I added it to the path after reading about other issues) and then it was telling me GitFlow wasn't installed.

I tried running the "Install" button but no success.

I located the install1.psd file in "..AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Extensions\xek1uoah.vok\Dependencies"

And reading it, I tried to reproduce what it was supposed to do

1. Copied the files in ".../Dependencies/binaries" into "C:\Program Files\Git\bin"
   There were 3 files : "getopt.exe", "libiconv2.dll", "libintl3.dll"

Then the PS script is supposed to run msysgit-install.cmd which is going to copy a total of 11 files located in "..\Dependencies\gitflow" which are all names "gitflow*" or "git-flow*" into "C:\Program Files\Git\bin"

It seems to have had issues with the UAC even though I run as admin so I did it manually.

I restarded Visual Studio but it still wouldn't locate GitFlow

Also, the part of install1.psd seems to search FOR "C:\Program Files\Git\git-flow" to make sure it was installed while the msysgit-install.cmd puts the files in bin

PS : Not that it should matter but my only changes since last time I saw it working was using a ssh agent for Git. There has been an update from Windows also

Is my understanding of those files wrong or is there an issue here?

[Aichan]

I finally found a way to fix my issue :

I opened git bash ("Run as Administrator")

cd ~\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\Extensions\2qvotjzl.gcp\Dependencies\gitflow\contrib
./gitflow-installer.sh install stable

Restart Visual Studio

It's now working.

I don't know how or why, but it seems that it previously used the "Windows" version, then MinGw picked over and thus it was considered a "Linux"

[jakobehn]

Thanks for posting the solution, that's great to know!