From: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
To: Schittli Thomas <Thomas.Schittli@akros.ch>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git: Please allow to use gpgsm to support X.509 certificates
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 16:19:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140419151913.GA29656@serenity.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87FCFF58480C9949AF1110DED8AC48E4E9A0D636@BASMX001.akros.ch>
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:03:07AM +0000, Schittli Thomas wrote:
> last night, brian m. Carlson explained, that "Git wants a key that can
> be used by GnuPG" and therefore X.509 certificates are not supported.
>
> As you probably know, since 3 years gpg supports X.509 -
> unfortunately, gpg does not automatically detect X.509 certificates
> and we have to use gpgsm instead of gpg.
> The good thing: for identical functions, the command line arguments are identical :-)
>
> Therefore: please allow to configure git, so that it can use gpg or gpgsm.
> Or even better: if gpg fails, then please automatically try gpgsm :-)
Have you tried `git config gpg.program gpgsm`?
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2014-04-19 11:03 Git: Please allow to use gpgsm to support X.509 certificates Schittli Thomas
2014-04-19 15:19 ` John Keeping [this message]
2014-04-19 18:24 ` AW: " Schittli Thomas
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