Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".

[Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>]

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 <garyyang6@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Gary Yang <garyyang6@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 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
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> > Subject: Re: "secret key not available".
> "unable to sign the tag".
> > To: "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
> > Cc: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@yahoo.com>,
> 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