unable to create new feature branch

[Mikael Karon]

when trying to create a feature branch this happends:

mikael@home:~/Workspaces/troopjs/bower_components/troopjs-widget$ git flow feature start featureName
/usr/lib/git-core/git-flow: 301: export: /home/mikael/Workspaces/troopjs/bower_components/troopjs-widget/.git: bad variable name

expected is that the feature branch 'feature/featureName' is created without error.

actual is the error from above.

[this](https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=763725) looks related.

'lsb_release -rd':
Description: Ubuntu 14.10
Release: 14.10

'apt-cache policy git-flow'
git-flow:
  Installed: 1.8.0-1
  Candidate: 1.8.0-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.0-1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ utopic/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mikael Karon (mikael-karon)]

As a side node. The deb bug does _not_ fix my problem (as you can see I'm already on 1.8)

[Nick Stoughton (nickstoughton)]

I just ran into this with version 1.8.0-1 on Ubuntu 15.10. It appears to be caused by having CDPATH set ... which in turn will cause the 'cd' command to print the name of the directory it is changing to if it uses it (i.e. if the directory name is not absolute, or does not start with ./)

Unsetting CDPATH before using any git-flow command (including "git flow init") is essential. The attached simple patch seems to do the trick:

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "Unset CDPATH patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.