As has been mentioned (repeatedly) this obviously has no use for people using SSH.  Indeed, the goal of this tool is explicitly to be helpful for cloud-hosted repositories in Visual Studio Team Services (formerly Visual Studio Online).  This is helpful for teams that enforce two-factor authentication over HTTPS.  The article assumes a bit of knowledge about this, but does indeed mention this:<p>&gt; We ported this tool to Mac and Linux to simplify their authentication to remote Git repositories, in particular those hosted in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).