Why is git cloning so absolutely difficult? Why not just provide HTTPS?

[mindph]

I thought cloning HF repos might be just like github or gitlap etc but instead I need to create some keys and stuff? And the documentation is also not really clear on this…

[u]$ git lfs install
Git LFS initialized.
[u]$ git clone git@hf co...
Cloning into ...
git@hf co: Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

[John6666]

The error message seems to indicate an SSH error…

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