Github 2FA personal access token doesn't work

Hey i have 2FA enabled on my github account and i can't get it to work under windows Sourcetree 2.6.10.

I am getting Authentication failed: Failed to check login for user [my_username] user/emails was not found.

Authentication is set to Basic and protocol is HTTPS.

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Hello! You won't be able to use basic auth with 2FA -- you'll need to use the OAuth option. Could you try that and let me know if it works?

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Hi, thanks for the reply. OAuth works.

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Which information goes into which fields in SourceTree to make SourceTree v4.0.2 (236) work with Github 2FA?

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