Several of my developers have reported this problem.

Using GitFlow, if a developer has already created a Hotfix (hotfix/ABC-1000) and tries to create another one (hotfix/ABC-2000) they will get an error message along the lines of "There is an existing hotfix branch ([Some Branch] hotfix/[Some Branch] hotfix/ABC-1000). Finish that one first."

This message does come up correctly when it realizes there is a Feature with the same branch name - this rocks! Except the message is really confusing.

But we are also seeing this when there is no other branch with the same name as the Hotfix branch being created. This is freaking out my developers.

I don't think GitFlow limits a developer to a limited number of Hotfix branches.

We do have the workaround of manually creating the Hotfix branch without GitFlow. But fixing this would sure settle a lot of nerves.

Thanks!