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After the "successful" strategy has languished for many years, and after even a "temporary fork" https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh (that Git for Windows was forced to switch to) has been archived for more than two years, even the original repository was archived, as per nvie/gitflow#3 (comment), at _very_ long last. Vincent Driessen recommends switching to `git-flow-next`, which is written in Go, and which I am unwilling to distribute with Git for Windows because 1) it would increase the installer size noticeably, and 2) that strategy seems not to be quite as successful as claimed, given the low usage numbers. So let's drop it. Since there has not been a whole lot of talk about the staleness of `git flow`, it is safe to assume that there are few users left, if any. Therefore, I deem a deprecation period unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
That project has gone super stale over the past seven or so years. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
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The Git Flow package is obsolete and unmaintained. It is no longer distributed with Git for Windows, see git-for-windows/build-extra#648 for details. checking dependencies... Packages (1) git-flow-1.12.3-2 Total Removed Size: 0.22 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] :: Processing package changes... removing git-flow...
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The Git Flow package is obsolete and unmaintained. It is no longer distributed with Git for Windows, see git-for-windows/build-extra#648 for details. Here is the output of the command that was run in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-for-windows-automation/actions/runs/18565589197: + set -x + pacman -Rns --noconfirm git-flow checking dependencies... Packages (1) git-flow-1.12.3-2 Total Removed Size: 0.22 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] :: Processing package changes... removing git-flow... + echo 0
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The Git Flow package is obsolete and unmaintained. It is no longer distributed with Git for Windows, see git-for-windows/build-extra#648 for details. Here is the output of the command that was run in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-for-windows-automation/actions/runs/18565589197: + set -x + pacman -Rns --noconfirm git-flow checking dependencies... Packages (1) git-flow-1.12.3-2 Total Removed Size: 0.22 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] :: Processing package changes... removing git-flow... + echo 0
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The Git Flow package is obsolete and unmaintained. It is no longer distributed with Git for Windows, see git-for-windows/build-extra#648 for details. Here is the output of the command that was run in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-for-windows-automation/actions/runs/18565589197: + set -x + pacman -Rns --noconfirm git-flow checking dependencies... Packages (1) git-flow-1.12.3-2 Total Removed Size: 0.22 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] :: Processing package changes... removing git-flow... + echo 0
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The Git Flow package is obsolete and unmaintained. It is no longer distributed with Git for Windows, see git-for-windows/build-extra#648 for details. Here is the output of the command that was run in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git-for-windows-automation/actions/runs/18565589197: + set -x + pacman -Rns --noconfirm git-flow checking dependencies... Packages (1) git-flow-1.12.3-2 Total Removed Size: 0.22 MiB :: Do you want to remove these packages? [Y/n] :: Processing package changes... removing git-flow... + echo 0
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Git Flow has bee removed from Git for Windows. See git-for-windows/build-extra#648
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I dearly regret ever adding Git Flow to Git for Windows. Not only did the entire flow strike me as counterproductively complex, the project itself was apparently not very successful in applying its own flow and went super stale.
We even tried to switch to a fork (hoping against hope that it was temporary). But even that fork was archived over two years ago.
Today, as a very belated sign that its maintainer is still alive, the
gitflowrepository was archived.There was that recommendation to switch to
git-flow-next. But I think we'd be better served, for various reasons. Most importantly:git-flow-nextis written in Go, and therefore its executable is multiple megabytes large, much larger than the Bash scripts of the original version. I am not willing to force every Git for Windows user to pay that extra cost, certainly not for something like Git Flow.