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Re: signing tags: user.name assumed to be gpg uid?

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 29, 2009, 21:12 UTC
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Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org> writes:
> I notice that after I init and config user.name and user.email the
> user.comment gets taken from ~/.gpg automatically.
What is "user.comment"?
> Is it a correct behaviour?

Yes, matching with user.name/user.email (actually committer information) is often the most convenient thing to do.

You can use user.signingkey configuration to use a key that doesn't match your name, too.

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