GitHub for Beginners: Common Questions Answered
GitHub Developer Skills
EDITOR BRIEF
This final episode answers common beginner questions about GitHub. It explains SSH keys as a private/public key pair used to authenticate pushes and pulls, then shows how to create a key with ssh-keygen and add it to ssh-agent so you do not need to keep retyping your passphrase.
INSIGHTS
If you are learning Git and GitHub, setting up SSH is a useful early step because it makes secure access easier. Next, practice generating a key pair and adding the public key to your GitHub account.
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