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SOURCETREE FOR MAC HOW TO

Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of SourceTree for Mac. It is a Free Git client that is compatible with both Mac OS 10 and Windows 10. It interacts with your Git repositories and visualizes and manages your repositories through Sourcetree’s simple Git GUI. Save the private and public keys for later use. Sourcetree most definitely is not malicious. Fresh Start: If you want to start from scratch, generate two new keys in PuttyGen.

rsa to the file name so you can differentiate from your ppk format private key.

Existing Keys: If you previously used Putty, load your ppk into PuttyGen and convert it to Open SSH format using the conversion option.

We'll be implementing the scenario where you have 1 work and 1 personal Github/Bitbucket/Gitlab account Obviously this is Windows and Git specific. I have recorded the steps I took to guarantee a sure-fire process to achieve functional Windows Sourcetree with Git working on multiple SSH keys.

SOURCETREE FOR MAC HOW TO

What I found most interesting was that every document explaining how to do this omitted one or two critical details. This week we have officially adopted two-factor authentication for our revision control so guess what?!Īs the documentation clearly states, this breaks HTTPS login for Git!Īll things considered this is a small issue but getting multi-key SSH configured was surprisingly difficult.

To avoid SSH key issues we just use simple HTTPS to clone our repos down instead of hassling with multiple SSH keys. Sometimes we work from our personal computers and being developers, we have our own projects outside of work that are associated with different credentials. We use Git and Sourcetree, primarily on the Windows operating system and love it 99% of the time.