Why does Sourcetree keep prompting for username/password?

Question

Hello,

I've seen this issue mentioned a few times throughout the forums, but the solutions that I've found there do not seem to be working for me.

In short, I use Sourcetree all day long and make frequent commits. Each time I commit (or pull) the app prompts me for my username and password.

Can someone please advise?

Thanks!

-Bill

wrakocy · Answer

Final note, and just to lend weight to the above solution, I had the exact same problem on my Mac (OS X), and the same solution did the trick. For what it's worth. Out...

wrakocy · Answer

OK, so after many abortive attempts to address the problem, I finally came across this little nugget about three quarters of the way toward the end of the Git Credential Manager help file (located on my machine here: C:/Users/[myusername/AppData/Local/Atlassian/SourceTree/git_extras/git-credential-manager.html):

Q: Why doesn’t SourceTree use the credentials in the GCM?

You need to configure SourceTree to use the version of Git installed for the entire system. By default, SourceTree uses a local copy of portable Git.

To fix this go to ‘Tools > Options > Git’ and click the ‘Use System Git’ button.

My button just said "System", not "Use System Git", but it did the trick, happy to report. Now if I could just have the 4 hours I spent digging for this back ... :/

wrakocy · Answer

Here is a screenshot, just for the record: