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 12:22:09 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <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 21:23:31 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 1L2X6d-0007LF-OS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:23:28 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752503AbYKRUWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752472AbYKRUWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:12 -0500 Received: from web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.91.163]:24525 "HELO web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752439AbYKRUWL (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:22:11 -0500 Received: (qmail 93756 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Nov 2008 20:22:09 -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:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=0mXdW/F72VLwTTwWkYMpYjFfmRx2m7CstaiHUPDx5WbqoHUmv41JOcZ/oWgwOckIykeLPwvz1CREdK9bDfLq2YWQ9sS5sEeyPCUObfQ+qRx9OoCkPkscm+iCPDban+zwGMrrgol85aP5llcAldPkb7uYv6ti2ccunSZAGQyf4xI=; X-YMail-OSG: l9RvUisVM1lgRWGAqyTerQDiMZTiy7dOuoUBKttXysiZvOHeR_nclMCXkxb4IwS1l01t4aCaIQLiPAn6_6R3kA316uhEmOD3PiNmKuZlRqgHRGo.PZAVIYqfc3jHxPx013gaE2NO6PSQXVJC0bn0_bjhY1pSAIVDf8gfQ5xu9lfE8UA- Received: from [76.195.33.70] by web37901.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:22:09 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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