From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:12:05 GMT
Subject: Re: signing tags: user.name assumed to be gpg uid?
Message-ID: <7vaax1bi3e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091229203637.GA3036@screwed.box>

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.