git for Beginners: Using SSH Keys with GitHub (Part 12)

SSH is a method for secure login and file transfer.

If you go over to GitHub and click on the "Clone or Download" button on a repository, you'll see that it says "Clone with SSH. Use a password-protected SSH key."

You can think of this like a secret handshake that your computer has with GitHub. The benefit is that it's secure and you don't have to constantly enter your username and password.

In this video, I show you how to generate an SSH Key and add it to GitHub.

0:00 Beginning
0:50 What is SSH?
1:11 Generating an SSH Key
2:12 Adding your SSH Key to GitHub

🔗 LINKS
* How to Generate an SSH Key
* Adding a new SSH key to your GitHub account

📹 RELATED VIDEOS

• Part 1: What is git? Why use it? How to install it
• Part 2: How to use git in the Terminal and in a Graphical User Interface, like Tower
• Part 3: Fixing Bad Commits
• Part 4: Branching
• Part 5: How to Resolve Merge Conflicts
• Part 6: Writing and Approving Pull Requests in GitHub
• Part 7: Best Practices for Teams
• Part 8: What is Tracking?
• Part 9: gitignore Tutorial ‍
• Part 10: My Favorite git Trick: gitmoji ‍
• Part 11: Oh my Zsh! Tutorial - git Customizations and Shortcuts

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