How do you keep SourceTree/SSH from forgetting your SSH keys? (I have to manually re-run 'ssh-add' to get it to work again!)

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UPDATE - It happened AGAIN!!!

Ok, so this just happened AGAIN! MAN is this frustrating!!! But this time I dug a little deeper and found that for some re

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First, install the latest Git for Windows release (the 2.15.1.2 one, by simply uncompressing the archive PortableGit-2.15.1.2-64-bit.7z.exe anywhere you want, and adding it to your PATH)

Second, make sure your SourceTree is using the System Git

Third, test in command-line if your ssh key is recognized:

ssh -T git@github.com

Hi username! You've successfully authenticated, 
but GitHub does not provide shell access.

Finally, make sure that SourceTree / Tools / Option uses as SSH client the OpenSSH one (not putty)

Then SourceTree should have nop problem reusing your ssh key.

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From your logs, the ~/.ssh/config generate is wrong: it mentions as User your username.
Whenever you establish an SSH connection to github.com/bitbucket.org, it is never as "you". It is always as git.

Host MarqueIV-Bitbucket
    HostName bitbucket.org
    User MarqueIV
    PreferredAuthentications publickey
    IdentityFile /Users/MarqueIV/.ssh/MarqueIV-Bitbucket
    UseKeychain yes
    AddKeysToAgent yes

Test it with ssh -Tv MarqueIV-Bitbucket