Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".

From: Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2008, 20:26 UTC
Message-ID: <810496.66936.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <832452.93473.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Here are the errors I got:

git tag -s my-second-tag

gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: skipped `Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>': secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available error: gpg failed to sign the tag fatal: unable to sign the tag

Thanks,

Gary

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> From: Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:22 PM
> All,
> 
> I really need to tag my source code. But, somehow I am not
> able. Can someone help?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> > Subject: Re: "secret key not available".
> "unable to sign the tag".
> > To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
> "Linus Torvalds"
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:57 AM
> > Hi Linus,
> > 
> > I do not understand your email. I used the command,
> git
> > config --global user.email garyyang6@yahoo.com. But, I
> still
> > got the same error. Do you have any idea?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > 
> > Gary
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > From: Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > > Subject: Re: "secret key not
> available".
> > "unable to sign the tag".
> > > To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> > > Cc: "Gary Yang"
> <garyyang6@yahoo.com>,
> > git@vger.kernel.org
> > > Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:16 PM
> > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > You need to tell git who you are, since it
> is
> > unable
> > > to deduce it from
> > > > doing host lookups. Try:
> > > > 
> > > >   git config --global user.email
> > garyyang6@yahoo.com
> > > > 
> > > > or whatever email address you used when you
> > created
> > > the key, and then
> > > > gpg should find it appropriately.
> > > 
> > > Side note: sometimes you might want to use a
> different
> > key
> > > than the one 
> > > you use for authorship. Then you can use
> > > 
> > > 	[user]
> > > 		SigningKey = key
> > > 
> > > (or "git config user.signingkey xyz" if
> you
> > > don't want to edit the 
> > > config file manually). 
> > > 
> > > This can be especially useful if you use
> different
> > keys for
> > > different 
> > > projects, even if you want to be known under the
> same
> > name
> > > in both. Or 
> > > because you want to have the local hostname in
> your
> > commit
> > > logs, but your 
> > > gpg key is using some externally visible
> > > "official" email address.
> > > 
> > > 			Linus
> 
> 
>       
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