Ideally if using the git flow workflow one would like to simply clone a git repo then run the git-flow initialization on it from SourceTree. The problem is that if you do it, it fails unless master is the default branch.

For us, the default branch is develop as master is just an empty placeholder branch (with nothing but a .gitignore) because there has been no release yet. Since there is nothing on master, I would like to keep develop as the default branch. If I try to init gitflow it says it cannot create the production branch.

The only way to get this to work is to create the tracking branch for master. Since I already have a refs/remotes/origin/master it would be very nice if SourceTree offered to just create the tracking branch for master for me.