The fastest way to get GitHub and SourceTree to play nice

Connecting Mac SourceTree with your GitHub account

In this post I will show you how to setup and/or fix the Mac OS version of SourceTree to make it work with your GitHub account like a charm.

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TL;DR

• Delete the Github authentication files under Home > Library > Application Support > Sourcetree
• Restart SourceTree
• Setup your GitHub Account using oAuth

It stopped working

Don’t you hate it when you’ve done some very nice programming that implemented that awesome new feature or fixed an annoying bug that caused a crash of your app?

Especially when it’s late, and you’re like: “let me just commit this version so I can go to bed sleeping like a rose as my code is committed and safe from harm”.

That dream was crushed as recently, I couldn’t commit from SourceTree to a GitHub repository I was working on after a sweet bug fixing session for a…