Sourcetree uses openssh when configured to use putty/plink

[Leon Schmetz]

While configuring a laptop (windows11) for a new colleague, I again am struggling  setting up Sourcetree.  Everything seems to work fine when I start sourcetree as administrator.

When started as a regular user sourcetree fails to validate a remote repository because it wants to spawn an OpenSSH process, which is strange as I have configured it to use plink.

So why is sourcetree using openssh when I have configured it for putty/plink?

[Brant Schroeder]

@Leon Schmetz welcome to the Atlassian community

To force Sourcetree to respect your PuTTY/plink setup, follow these steps:

• Find your plink.exe path. It is usually located at:
  C:\Users\<YourUser>\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\tools\putty\plink.exe
• Open the Windows Start Menu, type "Edit the system environment variables", and open it.
• Click Environment Variables.
• Under System variables (or User variables), click New.
• Variable name: GIT_SSH
• Variable value: [The full path to your plink.exe]
• Restart Sourcetree for the change to take effect.