Sourcetree Can't Open Git Bash

Question

On Windows 8 & trying to use SourceTree as my Git client -- all works but the following:

When I hit the terminal button in Sourctree it says "It has not been possible to start the Git Bash terminal" (yes, I'm using the default SourceTree setting to launch the git bash terminal when this button is clicked).

I am able to bring up said terminal but then I have to cd into the proper directory. Really would like the terminal button to work in SourcTree.

Answer 1

Yeah, for me the solution was to upgrade GIT to newest version. I had 1.9.4 and now I have 2.6.3. It works great. Also I noticed that git has new console right now, I see more colors here :)

Answer 2

Check your git version. If you still have system Git 1.9.5 running, then better upgrade to 2.6.3 now. Check your Git Path too then restart SourceTree. The new git bash terminal looks like this:

Answer 3

This may be useful if Cygwin is installed.

Thanks for suggesting to upgrade Git, but it didn't resolve the issue for me on Windows 7.

To find out Git's location, open a new Git Bash and invoke the which git command:

$ "which git"
/usr/bin/git

Remove git.exe from C:\cygwin\bin.

Restarted SourceTree and it worked.