Re: Calling "gpg --sign" with loopback pinentry in some scenarios, but not always

Jens Schmidt [off-list ref] writes:

It seems that "git" does not have any hooks to pass arbitrary
additional parameters to "gpg", right?  So my only reasonable
option would be a Emacs/Magit-specific "gpg"-wrapper that adds
command line parameter "--pinentry-mode loopback" to the wrapped
"gpg" executable.

Correct.  You can point your gpg.program configuration variable at
your wrapper, perhaps

    $ cat >"$HOME/bin/mygpg-with-pinentry" <<\EOF
    #!/bin/sh
    exec gpg --pinentry-mode loopback "$@"
    EOF
    $ chmod +x "$HOME/bin/mygpg-with-pinentry"
    $ git config gpg.openpgp.program "$HOME/bin/mygpg-with-pinentry"

or something like that.  It is unfortunate that

    $ git config gpg.openpgp.program "gpg --pinentry-mode loopback"

does not work.