How to install git-flow

Git-flow is distributed version control, close to universal in development work. Everything below is context rather than instruction — the project publishes its own material, and this note simply points at what matters.

Paths onto a machine

Expect differences between platforms. The same project may reach one system through a package index and another through a source build.

Who is behind it

Direction comes from the people who write the code. Their decisions on releases and support are the ones that matter.

Prior checks

Start from the support matrix. It narrows over time, and assumptions made years ago often no longer hold.

Interpreting what you see

Most unexpected behaviour traces back to resolution rather than to the project. An older copy sitting earlier in the path, or a version manager pointing somewhere else, will do it every time.

What this domain is

Only text is published from this domain. Each project remains exactly where its authors put it.

A note on older machines

Hardware age matters more than people expect here. Recent releases tend to assume modern runtimes and current system libraries, so an ageing machine can rule out the newest version entirely.