# git-config gpg.program - more flexibility needed ? 2 messages from 2022-06-06 to 2022-06-06. Participants: Laura Smith, brian m. carlson. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/57959 ## Laura Smith, 2022-06-06 11:37 Subject: git-config gpg.program - more flexibility needed ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/cVbMAjbLsxZPKlRxZe1zSKBcPx60ss_U_7r5ew78Dv3TVnCTMoisvnDgQXAh-2i4Li41Id6TAsO-rpc4DBIN41lMMIzhGIYxcQcfJ2eBM8Q%3D%40protonmail.ch ``` If my understanding is correct, gpg.program (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-gpgprogram) is a bit too hard-coded ? There are excellent non-gpg CLI programs out there such as gosop, sequoia and sequoia-sop. It would be great if instead of hard-coding the required flags that git requires, users were given the option to override the flags. ``` ## brian m. carlson, 2022-06-06 22:51 Subject: Re: git-config gpg.program - more flexibility needed ? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/Yp6E%2F1ye2Wi1mn0f%40camp.crustytoothpaste.net In-Reply-To: ``` On 2022-06-06 at 11:37:18, Laura Smith wrote: > If my understanding is correct, gpg.program (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-gpgprogram) is a bit too hard-coded ? > > There are excellent non-gpg CLI programs out there such as gosop, sequoia and sequoia-sop. > > It would be great if instead of hard-coding the required flags that git requires, users were given the option to override the flags. Unfortunately, it's a little hard to override the flags because different flags are passed in in different situations. For example, in some cases, we need the --status-fd output to properly determine whether the signature is trusted or not, and people can either pass in a key ID or not when signing. There isn't really a way to make things abstract in a useful way since there are so many possible permutations. It should, however, be possible to write a wrapper around Sequoia or other programs that would provide the necessary behaviour if you'd like to use a different implementation. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA ```