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Have been connecting to GitHub using SourceTree for over 1 year but now cannot get access

Chris Hadfield

Have just upgraded to SourceTree 2.4.8 because GitHub support suggested this but still unable to connect to my repository to do a Push.

GitHub login comes up but whatever I try in terms of configuring SourceTree to use the access token I've generated for GitHub I get auth failure, and even though the Refresh Auth Token from SorceTree shows as success?

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Mike Corsaro

Hello! Could you provide more details about where the error appears? If you're using an access token from GitHub, then you should be using that as a replacement for your password and won't need to add the remote account.

Mike Corsaro

If that doesn't work, try adding the GitHub account with OAuth:

Options > Accounts
Add a new account, but set "Authentication" to "OAuth"
Login, switch back to Sourcetree
Try pulling again

Chris Hadfield

Thanks for your prompt answer Mike. I've been getting feedback from GitHub support on this. The frustrating thing is that I can do a push fine from command line using my GitHub credentials but cannot using latest version of SourceTree!

GitHub support tell me that they have done some work on TSL and SSH recently and they comment:

>>The HTTPS request error you're seeing there is related to our recent TLS deprecation. Could you try connecting via SSH in SourceTree? If that doesn't help, I recommend you reach out to SourceTree's support team about how to use their tool with TLSv1.2.

And:

SourceTree comes with an older version of the Git Credential Manager for Windows built in. This is one of the known incompatibilities:

https://githubengineering.com/crypto-removal-notice/#known-incompatible-clients

It's not possible to directly upgrade the version that SourceTree uses, though you may be able to find a workaround in their forums.

Mike Corsaro

Okay, got it. To help fix this:

Download Git for Windows from the git-scm website
Install
Open Sourcetree, Tools > Options > Git, and click "use system git"
This will tell Sourcetree to use the version of git you just installed, and a newer GCM
Additionally, in Tools > Options > Network
- Check the "Enable TLS 1.2" checkbox

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same here on my mac...

I updated sourcetree yesterday and i can not push to github anymore. the dialog is comming up with his command to push but nothing happens (it hangs and has no further output). i can push from command line. I try to follow all advices here but nothing works... but sourcetree refreshes after i have pushed on cmd line...

any further hints?

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