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, Atlassian does not officially support or distribute a portable version of SourceTree. The standard installer uses Microsoft’s ClickOnce technology, which is designed to install the application into the user’s local profile ( %LocalAppData% ) rather than a single portable directory.

Because Sourcetree isn't natively portable, many developers turn to other Git GUI clients that are built with portability in mind: Portability Status Key Benefit Native Built directly into Git; highly portable and lightweight. SmartGit Supported

A dangling commit. Not referenced, not reachable, but intact. Somewhere between Fallujah’s dust storms and a faulty power supply, the hard drive had written a complete tree object and then forgotten it existed.

“What are you doing?” Miller asked.

“It’s corrupt,” Lena muttered, staring at the Git error log. “The object database is shot. Missing half the tree objects.”

She plugged it in.

Atlassian does not offer an official portable version of SourceTree, but a community-maintained project on GitHub allows for a self-contained installation on Windows requiring .NET Framework 4.5. This portable edition, along with specific installer behaviors, enables users to run the Git/Mercurial GUI without standard system-wide installation, often used for localizing configuration files. For more details, visit GitHub . Sourcetree is installing as portable? Not in Start Menu source tree portable

Offers a dedicated "portable" zip archive for Windows/Linux. Supported

If you use external tools like or Beyond Compare as your diff tool, the portable version of Sourcetree will look for them at their file paths.

the application to store its settings in its own folder rather than the %AppData% folder, though this often requires a custom launcher or script to redirect environment variables. Top Portable Alternatives to SourceTree , Atlassian does not officially support or distribute

And there it was.

Sourcetree is built on the .NET framework and usually requires: