From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gary Yang Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:57:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <525043.96796.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: Reply-To: garyyang6@yahoo.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff King , Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 18 17:59:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2Tuc-0002Tp-4P for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:58:50 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752645AbYKRQ5e (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752537AbYKRQ5e (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:34 -0500 Received: from web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.165]:28822 "HELO web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752472AbYKRQ5e (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:57:34 -0500 Received: (qmail 97245 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Nov 2008 16:57:33 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=M/RTyRCT5Y92Oewf7tltnc69fFUT4Jpe3bTWy4S0rVwbp4DjLHev3wXQ99ITkVDovz57G7rxzC7Z9nyVtcPG4KhvpKTRzlJlzWzYdWbGZnYBUsa/LZtUQG+qVDVZPWh9ovVO4jKG0lX7/MtJuJlBY9dQmZpgsDPt/jB5YzIQlCA=; X-YMail-OSG: zppmoU4VM1lFXq1KkGflmtaqumnOgqoYT_DgDSnQFoKiuPG1OqtbKw1pxdUIql5FQu3qaPXOFL7C2ng_UmdqHDA7A9quDW6oOR_WW5jhWG9ZGfBA4T1ji5To3CTy4JN_vajNO9LHtucsopNXgOPdF8QLvfJxHgUmv69h1GihYct3BUU- Received: from [76.195.33.70] by web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:57:33 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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