From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:32:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Allow "-u" flag to tag signing
Message-ID: <20051006233200.GR8041@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0510060952410.31407@g5.osdl.org>

* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@osdl.org) wrote:
> So rather than force my tagger ID to have to match the gpg key name, just 
> support the "-u" flag to "git tag" instead. It implicitly enables signing, 
> since it doesn't make any sense without it. Thus:
> 
> 	git tag -u <gpg-key-name> <tag-name> [<tagged-object>]
> 
> will use the named gpg key for signing.

Nice, I've had a hack something like this locally here as well, and been
meaning to cleanup and submit.

thanks,
-chris