AW: Git: Please allow to use gpgsm to support X.509 certificates

From: Schittli Thomas <thomas.schittli@akros.ch>
Date: Apr 19, 2014, 18:24 UTC
Message-ID: <87FCFF58480C9949AF1110DED8AC48E4E9A0DFCF@BASMX001.akros.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20140419151913.GA29656@serenity.lan>

Hi John,

> Have you tried `git config gpg.program gpgsm`?

wau, thanks a lot for this hint!, it works :-)

I think a "seamless" integration for all certificate-types would be better, but I try to motivate GnuPG to merge the function of gpgsm.exe into gpg.exe. This would give a great benefit for all applications using GnuPG.

Thanks a lot, kind regards, Tom

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Von: git-owner@vger.kernel.org [git-owner@vger.kernel.org]&quot; im Auftrag von &quot;John Keeping [john@keeping.me.uk]
Gesendet: Samstag, 19. April 2014 17:19
An: Schittli Thomas
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Betreff: Re: Git: Please allow to use gpgsm to support X.509 certificates

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:03:07AM +0000, Schittli Thomas wrote:

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> last night, brian m. Carlson explained, that "Git wants a key that can
> be used by GnuPG" and therefore X.509 certificates are not supported.
>
> As you probably know, since 3 years gpg supports X.509 -
> unfortunately, gpg does not automatically detect X.509 certificates
> and we have to use gpgsm instead of gpg.
> The good thing: for identical functions, the command line arguments are identical :-)
>
> Therefore: please allow to configure git, so that it can use gpg or gpgsm.
> Or even better: if gpg fails, then please automatically try gpgsm :-)

Have you tried `git config gpg.program gpgsm`?