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 12:26:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <810496.66936.qm@web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <832452.93473.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> 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 21:27:38 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 1L2XAW-0000R2-E7 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:27:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752835AbYKRU0N (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:26:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752718AbYKRU0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:26:12 -0500 Received: from web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.165]:45327 "HELO web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752712AbYKRU0M (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:26:12 -0500 Received: (qmail 67300 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Nov 2008 20:26:10 -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=Y52OQuDpT0IMMQJLrtMzVSoRoJ+1oscKQGp4AXLGBjkHiYp/RG3U68AR7BYevjrAdwJubj8upkMzyOVvNgqr6nT9HykFtsCNf9lv2qFt7nqnSwPnjd6TNiWa7fH7nvGt72NOfl3FutYNoxG2WtGgLubhuK6m54WOeoytJWwHOL4=; X-YMail-OSG: ZdNCFhUVM1ktV4AT2iu.SvAQq.wj4BQcIKqEhPrIwRq0HfHG5ui1hQfjtj2Lpt66zctgKLCk1e9TMy5ZOZi6F5fTpIbr8fGQ02.GW7UZRyk_5coul5Ixh6yxBDnf8A1rwUFANrf4EUYZhFFoTz4FE4XxIuWU5uGEvlOS046mJfFI5U8- Received: from [76.195.33.70] by web37903.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:26:10 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 In-Reply-To: <832452.93473.qm@web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Here are the errors I got: git tag -s my-second-tag gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: skipped `Gary Yang ': secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available error: gpg failed to sign the tag fatal: unable to sign the tag Thanks, Gary --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang wrote: > From: Gary Yang > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". > To: "Jeff King" , "Linus Torvalds" > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 12:22 PM > All, > > I really need to tag my source code. But, somehow I am not > able. Can someone help? > > Thanks in advance! > > > Gary > > > > --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang > wrote: > > > From: Gary Yang > > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". > "unable to sign the tag". > > To: "Jeff King" , > "Linus Torvalds" > > > Cc: git@vger.kernel.org > > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:57 AM > > 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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html