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From: Peter Vereshagin <peter@vereshagin.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: signing tags: user.name assumed to be gpg uid?
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:47:21 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091230104720.GA3229@screwed.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vaax1bi3e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Oh Junio want you buy me a mersedes benz?
2009/12/29 13:12:05 -0800 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> => To Peter Vereshagin :

JCH> > I notice that after I init and config user.name and user.email the
JCH> > user.comment gets taken from ~/.gpg automatically.
JCH> What is "user.comment"?

My probable suggestion about where the gpg key's comment field should be written for config --global. Sorry, it's not from ~/.gnupg

JCH> > Is it a correct behaviour?
JCH> Yes, matching with user.name/user.email (actually committer information)
JCH> is often the most convenient thing to do.

Is it necessary the pgp comment field to be present on the user.name? It isn't for From: in e-mail messages.

JCH> You can use user.signingkey configuration to use a key that doesn't match
JCH> your name, too.

Thanks!

73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB  12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627)
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-30 10:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-29 20:36 signing tags: user.name assumed to be gpg uid? Peter Vereshagin
2009-12-29 21:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-12-30 10:47   ` Peter Vereshagin [this message]

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