When running "git flow init" in an already existing repository, it cannot detect the master branch about gitflow HOT 6 CLOSED

Had a problem while running "git flow init" on existing repo clone under win 7:

$ git flow init
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-flow: line 69: ./gitflow-common: No such file or directory
C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-flow: line 78: ./gitflow-shFlags: No such file or directory

The problem was in wrong detection of current directory in "c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git-flow" file. A correction which allowed to work this around:
a) comment line 45: # export GITFLOW_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
b) added a line just after it with manually set abs path: export GITFLOW_DIR="c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin"

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That's odd. Could you paste the output of the following command here?

DEBUG=yes git flow init

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Sure. The output was quite lengthy, so I saved it to a file. The command that was run was:

echo "master" | DEBUG=yes git flow init &> git-flow.log.txt

And the output was saved here.

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This should be fixed in 871f5ed. Is was due to the fact that you probably have ANSI color output always enabled, even for non-TTY commands.

This patch shuts all color output of Git commands up.

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Confirmed fix in 871f5ed.

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Thanks @ikaschenko! I was having the same problem on Win7, your suggestion did the trick.

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