Re: Problem signing a tag

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 5, 2009, 20:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy6mk91ig.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4AF28CE4.5000906@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

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> Dig dig dig... gpg exits with 2 in a lot of cases, one would need to
> parse fd-error to find out more. But it also looks as if gpg exits
> normally with a good passphrase. So I tried, and at least with gpg 1.4.9
> and git 1.6.5.2 I can sign tags with "use-agent" and without a running
> agent: I get asked for the passphrase (after reporting the agent MIA),
> and everything's fine.
>
> My gpg returns 0 in this case; it returns 2 only if I don't enter the
> passphrase. So, this seems to depend on the version of gpg. Or on
> entering the correct passphrase ;)

If the problematic gpg that gives 2 is older than yours, the situation looks to me that "exiting 2 when failed to contact agent but got a good passphrase some other way and successfully signed" was diagnosed as a bug and then fixed in gpg. If that is the case can we find out which version that fix is in, and add an entry to FAQ to help next person who will be hit by this when using "tag -s"?