From: Gary Yang Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:22:09 GMT Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". Message-ID: <832452.93473.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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 wrote: > From: Gary Yang > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". > To: "Jeff King" , "Linus Torvalds" > 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 > wrote: > > > From: Linus Torvalds > > > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". > "unable to sign the tag". > > To: "Jeff King" > > Cc: "Gary Yang" , > 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