Sourcetree crashes when checking out remote branch.

[Spencer Kolbus]

Two things happen when I try to check out a remote branch from my bitbucket repository.

1. Sourcetree cannot see the local repo for this remote repo and asks me to create a new one.
2. If it was able to see local repo for this remote repo, when it goes to checkout the branch it crashes immediately. 

Also there is a red "!" symbol by the remote icon in Sourcetree, and when I go in and edit the settings of the repo that goes away. However I am still unable to checkout remote branches and it crashes when I try.

I can fetch, pull, and push to the repo and am getting updates when I need to pull even though I can't checkout a remote branch. I can create a new local on and push it to Bitbucket, but any new remote branches I cannot checkout.

The only way I was able to checkout a remote branch was to either use the git command line, or uninstalling Sourcetree and installing version 3.2.6.3544 of Sourcetree from the website. Once installed I get a notifiation to update to the most current version and if I do that I am unable to checkout remote branches.

So I am unable to update Sourcetree cause it will break my remote repo. Has anyone else had this problem?

[alexjdg]

I'm having the exact same issue on versions newer than 3.2.6, up to 3.3.9 (latest).

[phil.kenderdine@incontrol.com]

I have been having this problem for sometime. It used to be a nice feature but now I always copy the git command and use git to fetch and check out the branch. I did try to revert to an earlier version but the problem still remained. I will try to 3.2.6 version and see how we go.

[fergiektid]

Same issue here with 3.3.9.

Event viewer shows pretty much an identical error to that explained here :
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/SourceTree-keeps-crashing-checking-out-a-BitBucket-branch/qaq-p/1435058

Reverted to 3.2.6 and all is well.

[Rob Richardson]

I've had this same issue with 3.3.9. Rolled back to 3.2.6 which seems to work

[Steve Plant]

For info: I have stayed with 3.2.6, which is working OK for me (fingers crossed), for that same reason.

[Steve Plant]

Isn't it disappointing how an error like this can persist, seemingly without any action from Altlassian? At least there is hope on our side - moving to GitHub soon, which means goodbye to SourceTree. 

[mprodan2]

are there any updates on this? 

Same issue on 3.3.8. Did not have this issue on my previous version, but frankly i am not sure which one was it :)

[Stefan Hirschenberger]

Same Issue here.
Even in 3.3.8.

[Bluestone69]

I am getting exactly the same issue with 3.3.4.

[anders_melander]

I've had these problem too since upgrading to 3.3.4

I have the "!" symbol too and have to edit the settings before I can checkout. The setting changes aren't persisted so I have to do it every time I start SourceTree - crash or no crash.
I can check out by branching the "remotes" tree and selecting "checkout", but if I use Respository->Checkout or if I "Check out in SourceTree" via Stash I get the crash immediately.

[Steve Plant]

I have had the same issue with 3.3.4 today.