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More context for GitHub PAT #8

Closed karawoo closed 4 years ago

karawoo commented 4 years ago

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What is the role of the personal access token (PAT) in relation to the two authentication methods available on GitHub (SSH/HTTPS)? Is it only used to replace the password in HTTPS authentication? If so, what are the relevant differences between using SSH vs HTTPS with a PAT?

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In this lesson we dove right into the weeds of R, and I wasn't clear on why we were learning this or how it would be useful in the larger context of the optimal workflow that this course is about.

This question was echoed in gitter as well

karawoo commented 4 years ago

This is now in the pre-workshop setup, explained in the git module, and has a nice diagram thanks to @jennybc.