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Re: Signed git-tag doesn't find default key

From
Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date
Oct 21, 2006, 00:52 UTC
Message-ID
<200610210052.k9L0q88T005342@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
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<andyparkins@gmail.com>
Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> I'm going to advocate my change of only searching on the email address
> for finding the key - there shouldn't be two keys with the same email
> address anyway, so there shouldn't be a danger of ambiguity of key.

There very well might be... say you have a key for signing git stuff, another one for emailing, another one for signing RPMs you create, ... I believe that is the idea of the GPG comment field, precisely.

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