Re: [PATCH] git-tag: don't use gpg's stdin, stdout when signing tags

From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Feb 23, 2009, 15:23 UTC
Message-ID: <20090223152303.9953.qmail@770db0999d0428.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090220134634.GJ4505@inocybe.teonanacatl.org>

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:46:34AM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:

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> Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > When using gpg with some console based gpg-agent, acquiring the
> > passphrase through the agent fails if stdin and stdout of gpg are
> > redirected.  With this commit, git-tag uses temporary files instead
> > of standard input/output when signing a tag to support such
> > gpg-agent usage.
> >
> > The problem was reported by Loïc Minier through
> > http://bugs.debian.org/507642
> 
> I sign tags using gpg-agent with the curse pinentry often and it works
> here.  Perhaps Loïc has not set GPG_TTY as the gpg-agent documentation
> suggests?  If I unset GPG_TTY, I get the sort of failure indicated in
> the bug report.  With it set tag signing works as expected.

Thanks a lot Todd and Johannes for teaching me. From my POV this patch can be dropped.

Regards, Gerrit.