Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".

From: Gary Yang <redacted>
Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
To: "Jeff King" <redacted>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:57 AM
Hi Linus,

I do not understand your email. I used the command, git
config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com. But, I still
got the same error. Do you have any idea?

Thank you,


Gary

--- On Sun, 11/16/08, Linus Torvalds

[off-list ref] wrote:

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From: Linus Torvalds

[off-list ref]

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Subject: Re: "secret key not available".

"unable to sign the tag".

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To: "Jeff King" <redacted>
Cc: "Gary Yang" <redacted>,

git@vger.kernel.org

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Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:16 PM
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:

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You need to tell git who you are, since it is

unable

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to deduce it from

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doing host lookups. Try:

  git config --global user.email

garyyang6@yahoo.com

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or whatever email address you used when you

created

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the key, and then

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gpg should find it appropriately.

Side note: sometimes you might want to use a different

key

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than the one 
you use for authorship. Then you can use

	[user]
		SigningKey = key

(or "git config user.signingkey xyz" if you
don't want to edit the 
config file manually). 

This can be especially useful if you use different

keys for

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different 
projects, even if you want to be known under the same

name

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in both. Or 
because you want to have the local hostname in your

commit

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logs, but your 
gpg key is using some externally visible
"official" email address.

			Linus