Re: GPG signing is bent on WIndows

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 9, 2018, 12:31 UTC
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1811091328350.39@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet>
In-Reply-To: <CAH8yC8ngjy_NGhgepRu+331L_=QQ4bpvMe5T4OtjLXJR3OZ-NQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

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> Several weeks ago I updated to the latest Git for Windows (when
> prompted by the version check). At the time I noticed:
> 
> $ git commit -S -am "Fix unset MAKE variable in test scripts"
> gpg: signing failed: No pinentry
> gpg: signing failed: No pinentry
> error: gpg failed to sign the data
> fatal: failed to write commit object
> 
> I got to look at it today. On Windows:
> 
> $ cat ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
> pinentry-program
> /usr/local/MacGPG2/libexec/pinentry-mac.app/Contents/MacOS/pinentry-mac

Git for Windows is partially based off of MSYS2, which upgraded GPG from v1 to v2, and one of the consequences is that v2 handles interaction with the user differently.

My guess is that you copied your config from a Mac, and the path is simply incorrect. I would wager a bet that it starts working when you remove that line with the incorrect path, as the default should work plenty fine for you.

Ciao, Johannes