# Install git-flow with Homebrew, apk, apt, MacPorts, winget

Extensions to follow Vincent Driessen's branching model. Version 0.4.1 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:git-flow
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install git-flow
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install git-flow
```

  Evidence: MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-flow/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- apk (92%):

```sh
sudo apk add git-flow
```

  Evidence: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-flow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install git-flow
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: git-flow from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

### Windows

- winget (92%):

```sh
winget install --id GitTower.GitFlowNext -e
```

  Evidence: Windows Package Manager source index: GitTower.GitFlowNext from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:git-flow
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/git-flow>
- **Version:** 0.4.1
- **Source summary:** Extensions to follow Vincent Driessen's branching model
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow#readme>
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow/archive/refs/tags/0.4.1.tar.gz>
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- git-flow (cli)
- git-flow (alias)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Caveats: To install Zsh completions: brew install zsh-completions
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 0.4.1
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/nvie/gitflow
- Upstream latest detected: 0.4.1 (current)
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
## Project history and usage

git-flow is the original command-line extension package for Vincent Driessen's Git branching model, providing high-level commands for feature, release, hotfix, and support branches.

### Project history

Driessen published the branching model on January 5, 2010 and opened the gitflow repository later that month. The model organized release-oriented development around long-lived master and develop branches plus short-lived feature, release, and hotfix branches. The command package encoded that procedure as `git flow init`, `git flow feature`, `git flow release`, `git flow hotfix`, and related subcommands.

### Adoption history

The model became one of the most recognizable Git workflow patterns of the 2010s. Driessen's 2020 reflection says many software teams treated git-flow almost like a standard, while also cautioning that continuously delivered web applications often benefit from simpler workflows such as GitHub Flow. The original repository's README later thanked users for more than fifteen years of adoption and pointed to git-flow-next as the maintained successor.

### How it is used

Practitioners used git-flow to initialize branch naming conventions, start feature branches from develop, finish them back into develop, prepare release branches, and apply urgent fixes from master through hotfix branches. The CLI wrapped ordinary Git branch, merge, tag, publish, and pull operations into named release-management steps.

### Why package nerds care

git-flow is significant in package-manager culture because it turned a blog-post workflow into an installable Git extension. Its formulae and distro packages made `git flow` a standard command on developer machines, even as later teams debated whether the workflow fit CI/CD-heavy projects.

### Timeline

- 2010: Driessen published the successful Git branching model.
- 2010: The gitflow repository began and early 0.x releases followed.
- 2020: Driessen added a reflection warning against dogmatic use for continuous-delivery web applications.
- 2025: The original repository marked git-flow-next as the maintained successor.

### Related projects

- git-flow influenced git-flow-avh, git-flow-completion, Tower's Git-flow integration, and git-flow-next.

### Sources

- <https://git-flow.sh/blog/posts/how-git-flow-next-improves-upon-git-flow-avh/>
- <https://github.com/bobthecow/git-flow-completion>
- <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow>
- <https://github.com/nvie/gitflow#readme>
- <https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/>


## Security Notes

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** git-flow
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 1
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Conflicts With:** git-flow-next
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** yes
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - git-flow - 1.12.3-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: git-flow from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Git extension to provide a high-level branching model | https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow/wiki
- Ubuntu apt - git-flow - 1.12.3-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: git-flow from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Git extension to provide a high-level branching model | https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow/wiki
- apk - git-flow - 1.12.3-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-flow from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Git extension to provide a high-level branching model | https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh
- apk - git-flow-doc - 1.12.3-r1: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: git-flow-doc from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Git extension to provide a high-level branching model (documentation) | https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow-avh
- MacPorts - git-flow: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: devel/git-flow/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- winget - GitTower.GitFlowNext: normalized package name match | Windows Package Manager source index: GitTower.GitFlowNext from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/git-flow.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/git-flow.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
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- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph