From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:31:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Problem signing a tag
Message-ID: <81b0412b0911022331q2976b6e6u575a9700b212623d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200911021558.17550.joshua@eeinternet.com>

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
> Nobody on the git IRC channel responded to this question, even after
> asking it a few times, so I thought I'd try here.
>
> I'm having trouble signing a tag.  I'm using this command:
>
> git tag -u EAFD344D14EA086E -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name
>
> I type in my passphrase, and am then told:
>
> error: gpg failed to sign the tag
> error: unable to sign the tag
>
> However, if I use this command:
>
> gpg -s -u EAFD344D14EA086E
>
> and use the same passphrase, it works fine. Is there any way to find out
> why a key-signing is failing?

What does "echo $?" after it prints? IOW, maybe plain gpg fails too,
without printing anything special, and you don't pay attention to the
exit code. Git does. And it runs "gpg -bsau <key-id>".