Re: Problem signing a tag

> On Monday 02 November 2009, Alex Riesen said something like:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com> 
> 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>".
> 
> $ git tag -s -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@azariah.com>"
> 1024-bit DSA key, ID 14EA086E, created 2009-08-09
> 
> gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
> error: gpg failed to sign the tag
> error: unable to sign the tag
> $ echo $?
> 128
> 
> And when I sign at the prompt:
> 
> $ gpg -sa
> 
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@azariah.com>"
> 1024-bit DSA key, ID 14EA086E, created 2009-08-09
> 
> gpg: problem with the agent - disabling agent use
> Blah blah blah blah
> Blah blah blah blah
> $ echo $?
> 2