Install SourceTree without an Atlassian account?

Question

I'm trying to use SourceTree for a class that I'm teaching. In order to do that we need to install SourceTree onto the school's Windows computers.

When we try to install SourceTree (Version 1.9.10.0) it demands an Atlassian account before it will start. Obviously this is wrong - since we're trying to install SourceTree onto a shared computer (into a VM, to be specific) we don't have just one account (and, on top of that, we're using SourceTree with GitLab, not BitBucket/Atlassian, so we don't need their account anyways).

Is it possible to install SourceTree but skip the 'create an Atlassian account' step during the install process?

(We'd be ok with having the students create accounts later on, when they first start using it - we just don't want all the students to share a single BitBucket account by default)

Answer 1

Updated 2020-11-27

Happy to see that SourceTree allow users to skip the login procedure in version 3.3.9.

For older versions:
SouceTree uses accounts.json file to store account settings.
It would skip the login process if there is an accounts.json file in your machine.
So you can copy the accounts.json file in %AppData%\Atlassian\SourceTree\ to any other machine to skip the login procedure.