Disable automatic backups in SourceTree

Question

I'm using SourceTree together with TortoiseDiff/Merge. Every time I save a file there, after resolving all conflicts, SourceTree handles everything perfectly, except for the fact, that it always create a backup file [name].orig.

This is extremely irritating for me, as I have to Ctrl+Del such file each time and confirm annoying dialogs.

How can I get rid of this?

I thought, that this will be as simple as unchecking Tools > Options > Keep backups on destrictive operations. But, apparently this is not enough or this option controls some other behaviour of SourceTree.

Answer 1

As we talk.. This can be caused by a git settings instead of SourceTree/another tool settings.

Try doing this:

git config --global mergetool.keepBackup false

From: Git mergetool generates unwanted .orig files