Adding an SSH key to your GitHub account

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Let’s keep this brief as GitHub already provides all the instructions (if you can find it!)

This page describes how to generate a secret-public key pair, and this page describes how to add it to your GitHub account. You can test if it worked by typing ssh -T git@github.com in the terminal. If you get the following message:

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

You’re good to go!