Installing Git-flow in Windows

git-flow is a bunch of Git extensions that makes version control extremely easy. Below is a concise procedure to install it on Windows platform.

1. Download getopt.exe from util-linux package, download the bin file only, as highlighted below:

2. Copy this file to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin” if you use x64 OS, or
   “C:\Program Files\Git\bin” if you run x86 OS.

3. Clone the git-flow sources from GitHub

$ git clone –recursive git://github.com/nvie/gitflow.git
$ cd gitflow

4. Run the below cmd in windows command window

cd gitflow/contrib/
msysgit-install.cmd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git"


Now run “git flow” in git bash, success!