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This was not what a lot of people were doing beforehand. We were logging in with our passwords. At least for me when this change was announced, I had no idea wh
by MattGaiser 5y ago
This was not what a lot of people were doing beforehand. We were logging in with our passwords. At least for me when this change was announced, I had no idea what a key pair was as I was always using passwords for everything.
- shepherdjerred 5y agoHave you never used ssh? Genuinely curious.
- voussoir 5y agoI'm not the person you asked, but I can say that at the time I started using github I had never used ssh.
- MattGaiser 5y agoUntil GitHub had made that change, nope. Logged into servers with a password (my entire company did actually). Used Git nearly exclusively through some Jetbrains tool.
- rurp 5y agoI would bet that a large portion of first time GitHub users have never used ssh, myself included at that time. Anyone teaching themselves to code will find a lot of information right away about git and GitHub, but probably little about ssh until they've gone pretty far past the stage where they create a Hello World script in Python and save it to GitHub.