Issue with SourceTree while cloning a GitHub repository

The exact error message is (as illustrated here):

 This is not a valid source path / URL

Possible cause:

  • proxy settings (as in this thread)
  • setup steps, with Git disabled (as in here)When SourceTree started for the first time, I skipped setting up Git & Mercurial in the wizard. Then I reran the wizard and chose to download and install the embedded packages.
    But it seems installing those didn’t actually enable them – in the Tools -> Options dialogue they were both disabled!
    Enabling Mercurial (or Git in your case) allowed the clone dialogue to correctly identify the repo.
  • credential issues (as in here, from my old answwer)

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