Git Flow Init Fails

[chucky86boy]

• I'm submitting a ...

  • [ x ] bug report
  • [ ] feature request
  • [ ] puppy => You're not submitting a puppy. I already have one and he's adorable

• What is the current behavior? When I try to initialize git-flow, it creates an error.

• Is this a bug? Sorry about that. If so give me explicit details how to reproduce:

  1. Open IntelliJ
  2. Install Git Flow Integration
  3. Initialize Git-Flow

• What is the expected behavior? It should initialize gitflow

• Please tell me about your environment:

  • Gitflow4idea version: 0.7.1
  • Gitflow version: 0.4.1

    Android Studio 3.5.3
    Build #AI-191.8026.42.35.6010548, built on November 15, 2019
    JRE: 1.8.0_202-release-1483-b49-5587405 x86_64
    JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o
    macOS 10.15.2

• Other information (e.g. detailed explanation, stacktrace, related issues, suggestions how to fix, links for me to have context words of praises, pictures of puppies (again with the puppy??) )

  java.lang.NullPointerException
  at gitflow.actions.InitRepoAction.actionPerformed(InitRepoAction.java:51)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ex.ActionUtil$1.run(ActionUtil.java:261)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ex.ActionUtil.performActionDumbAware(ActionUtil.java:278)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem$ActionTransmitter.lambda$actionPerformed$0(ActionMenuItem.java:292)
  at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.FocusManagerImpl.runOnOwnContext(FocusManagerImpl.java:283)
  at com.intellij.openapi.wm.impl.IdeFocusManagerImpl.runOnOwnContext(IdeFocusManagerImpl.java:107)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem$ActionTransmitter.actionPerformed(ActionMenuItem.java:282)
  at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2022)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem.lambda$fireActionPerformed$0(ActionMenuItem.java:111)
  at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.runSyncTransaction(TransactionGuardImpl.java:88)
  at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.lambda$submitTransaction$1(TransactionGuardImpl.java:111)
  at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuardImpl.submitTransaction(TransactionGuardImpl.java:120)
  at com.intellij.openapi.application.TransactionGuard.submitTransaction(TransactionGuard.java:121)
  at com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.impl.ActionMenuItem.fireActionPerformed(ActionMenuItem.java:111)
  at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2348)
  at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:402)
  at javax.swing.JToggleButton$ToggleButtonModel.setPressed(JToggleButton.java:308)
  at javax.swing.AbstractButton.doClick(AbstractButton.java:376)
  at com.apple.laf.ScreenMenuItemCheckbox.itemStateChanged(ScreenMenuItemCheckbox.java:193)
  at java.awt.CheckboxMenuItem.processItemEvent(CheckboxMenuItem.java:389)
  at java.awt.CheckboxMenuItem.processEvent(CheckboxMenuItem.java:357)
  at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEventImpl(MenuComponent.java:357)
  at java.awt.MenuComponent.dispatchEvent(MenuComponent.java:345)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:769)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.access$500(EventQueue.java:98)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:715)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:709)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)
  at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:84)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:739)
  at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:737)
  at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
  at java.security.ProtectionDomain$JavaSecurityAccessImpl.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:74)
  at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:736)
  at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.defaultDispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:757)
  at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue._dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:706)
  at com.intellij.ide.IdeEventQueue.dispatchEvent(IdeEventQueue.java:375)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:205)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:116)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:105)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:101)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
  at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:82)

[OpherV]

@chucky86boy You're using nvie/gitflow rather than gitflow-avh. The former is dead and hasn't been updated in years. Please upgrade to AVH Gitflow