Re: Problem signing a tag

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler [off-list ref] wrote:

Nobody on the git IRC channel responded to this question, even after
asking it a few times, so I thought I'd try here.

I'm having trouble signing a tag.  I'm using this command:

git tag -u EAFD344D14EA086E -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name

I type in my passphrase, and am then told:

error: gpg failed to sign the tag
error: unable to sign the tag

However, if I use this command:

gpg -s -u EAFD344D14EA086E

and use the same passphrase, it works fine. Is there any way to find out
why a key-signing is failing?

What does "echo $?" after it prints? IOW, maybe plain gpg fails too,
without printing anything special, and you don't pay attention to the
exit code. Git does. And it runs "gpg -bsau <key-id>".