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, 12:26 PM
Here are the errors I got:

git tag -s my-second-tag

gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more
information
gpg: skipped `Gary Yang [off-list ref]':
secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
error: gpg failed to sign the tag
fatal: unable to sign the tag



Thanks,


Gary

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>

wrote:

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From: Gary Yang <redacted>
Subject: Re: "secret key not available".

"unable to sign the tag".

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To: "Jeff King" <redacted>,

"Linus Torvalds"
[off-list ref]

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Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:22 PM
All,

I really need to tag my source code. But, somehow I am

not

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able. Can someone help?

Thanks in advance!


Gary

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang

[off-list ref]

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wrote:

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From: Gary Yang <redacted>
Subject: Re: "secret key not

available".

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"unable to sign the tag".

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To: "Jeff King" <redacted>,

"Linus Torvalds"
[off-list ref]

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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,

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git

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config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com.

But, I

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still

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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".

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"unable to sign the tag".

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To: "Jeff King"

[off-list ref]

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Cc: "Gary Yang"

[off-list ref],

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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

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is

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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

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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

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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

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you

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don't want to edit the 
config file manually). 

This can be especially useful if you use

different

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keys for

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different 
projects, even if you want to be known under

the

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same

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name

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

in

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your

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commit

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

			Linus

      
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