From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20081115035743.GA19633@coredump.intra.peff.net> References: <823128.71540.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Gary Yang X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Nov 15 04:59:08 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 1L1CJP-0007sn-AD for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:59:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751861AbYKOD5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751859AbYKOD5r (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:47 -0500 Received: from peff.net ([208.65.91.99]:3614 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751854AbYKOD5q (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:46 -0500 Received: (qmail 3564 invoked by uid 111); 15 Nov 2008 03:57:45 -0000 Received: from coredump.intra.peff.net (HELO coredump.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.2) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.32) with SMTP; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:45 -0500 Received: by coredump.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:57:43 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <823128.71540.qm@web37902.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Gary Yang wrote: > I got errors and warnings when I used "git tag -s my-tag". It says, > "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". Probably because it can't find your secret key, like it says. > 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 > > I ran "gpg --gen-key" and generated keypair. But, still got the same > error. Please help. Did the key you generated have the email address "gyang@linux123.(none)"? If not, then that is your problem. 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. -Peff