From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:06:00 GMT
Subject: Re: git-tag -s can't find GPG private key
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001271306o7e6d9abu1f370ed4698ac055@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B60A9F0.5000904@gmail.com>

Heya,

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 22:02, Mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard@gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that when the GPG key name and user.name in git's config are
> different, git can't find the appropriate private key to sign the tag.
> Git should attempt to use user.email to find the key. Setting
> user.signingkey is of course a workaround. The relevant code would be in
> builtin-tag.c.

It seems you already know where to look, why don't you try and come up
with a patch since it is indeed, your itch to scratch?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier