Cloning a repository with SourceTree

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soleil picture soleil · Dec 28, 2012 · Viewed 73.5k times · Source

Can someone give me a quick walkthrough on simply cloning a repo with SourceTree?

In Bookmarks, I click on Clone Repository. For Source Path I paste in the URL which looks like this:

[email protected]:client/appname/ios-application.git

But I get "This is not a valid source path / URL".

I'm copying directly from the Repository Browser in codebase so I know the URL is correct.

What else do I need to do?

Answer

Y Zhang picture Y Zhang · Jan 16, 2014

My solution was to change the Git version from 'Use Embedded Git' to 'Use System Git'. Because I installed GitHub on my computer earlier, it seems SourceTree chose that Git by default rather than download the embedded version when it was installed.

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