From: Grant Olson <kgo@grant-olson.net>
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 02:23:31 GMT
Subject: Re: PATCH: Less fragile lookup of gpg key
Message-ID: <4BDF8523.1030202@grant-olson.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100504021937.GY14986@thunk.org>

On 5/3/2010 10:19 PM, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:19:17PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>> Meanwhile the original problem here appears to me to be that Git
>> effectively encourages use of multiple valid keys that may have the same
>> e-mail address attached to multiple key-IDs.
> 
> Yes, I think that *is* the problem.  If you want to optimize for the
> common case, that's fine, but it's also useful to have a way for users
> to specify in their gitconfig files that a specific KeyID should be
> used if they are signing with a particular e-mail ID.
> 

That's already there:

git config user.signingkey 0xDEADBEEF

-Grant