Using Terminal in SourceTree

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Purpose

This article should help users to learn how to access and configure terminal settings in SourceTree

Solution

This page:

General

You can open a terminal from within SourceTree by just clicking Terminal button:

If you open the terminal when a repository tab is opened, the terminal will be opened from the local repository folder:

 

If there are no repository opened at the moment, the terminal will be opened from the SourceTree folder instead:

Functions specific to Windows

In SourceTree for Windows' option for Git, you can set the terminal button to open Windows' default command prompt or to open SourceTree-integrated Git Bash (by default runs with SourceTree's embedded Git) by checking the Use Git Bash as default terminal checkbox in Tools > Options > Git:

For Mercurial, you can only run it via Windows' command prompt.

Last modified on Feb 26, 2016

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