Cannot clone Git repository into sourcetree, Login screen keeps appearing

In BitBucket, when I select clone into source tree, the URL is of format

Sourcetree opens with details to clone, but keeps asking for my login details no matter how many times I enter them.

https://myname@bitbucket.org/mygroup/myrepository.git


I have no problems on a different computer ( also Windows 10 )

I have tried upgrading SourceTree and Reinstalling Source Tree

I have tried System Git and Embedded Git and reinstalling both Git

I can clone Mercurial repositories

At the Dos prompt I can type

git clone https://myname@bitbucket.org/mygroup/myrepository.git


I get a message

fatal: HttpRequestException encountered
An error occurred wihe sending the request


then it asks for my password
then it proceeds with the clone

However in sourcetree the repository shows that there are more branches to pull.
I am unable to pull these branches

When I go to the Tools->Options->Authentication tab I can see myname@bitbucket.org as an Account.

If I try to add myname@mydomain.com.au I get

Authentication failed
Invalid URL: The hostname could not be parsed.

2 Answers
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Atlassian community

"The only thing that worked for me was navigating to C:UsersUSERNAMEAppDataLocalAtlassianSourceTree and removing the passwd file."

Had the same problem , but on MacOS. Just for completion of the answer I will add that on MacOS the passwords are stored in the KeyChain Access and they need to be deleted from there.

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