How to migrate SourceTree and Git to another mac and have everything there???

Paul Levin

All we have at this point is a timemachine backup of a macbook pro that had SourceTree working about 6 months ago.

We are trying to restore everything needed to have SourceTree working like it was on that macbook pro.  I am still looking for how to get the credentials and settings for our remote git repository.  Yep, we do not have the password nor login name for that repository any more.  Yet I know that macbook pro had it configured so all I would have to do is run SourceTree.  I would not have to login to anything.

Where are all the files I need to get this configured and working?

 

bgannin

Hi @Paul Levin,

Sourcetree for Mac uses a combination of methods to store all the items you asked about.

1. "Repository Settings" are stored in the local copy of the repository, you'd need to restore that and then update to the latest commit

2. Registration for the app is stored for the current user, restoring that should restore the appropriate files

3. Authentication requires a combination of Keychain items and encrypted files in the user's Application Support directory. Restoring both of those should bring back the authentication if all the other items are back in place. 

Hope that helps.

Brian Ganninger
Principal Developer, Sourcetree