From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Joshua J. Kugler" <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem signing a tag
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 08:31:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0911022331q2976b6e6u575a9700b212623d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200911021558.17550.joshua@eeinternet.com>
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
> Nobody on the git IRC channel responded to this question, even after
> asking it a few times, so I thought I'd try here.
>
> I'm having trouble signing a tag. I'm using this command:
>
> git tag -u EAFD344D14EA086E -F .git/TAG_EDITMSG tag_name
>
> I type in my passphrase, and am then told:
>
> error: gpg failed to sign the tag
> error: unable to sign the tag
>
> However, if I use this command:
>
> gpg -s -u EAFD344D14EA086E
>
> and use the same passphrase, it works fine. Is there any way to find out
> why a key-signing is failing?
What does "echo $?" after it prints? IOW, maybe plain gpg fails too,
without printing anything special, and you don't pay attention to the
exit code. Git does. And it runs "gpg -bsau <key-id>".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-03 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-03 0:58 Problem signing a tag Joshua J. Kugler
2009-11-03 7:31 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2009-11-03 18:11 ` Joshua J. Kugler
2009-11-04 14:28 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-11-04 18:47 ` Joshua J. Kugler
2009-11-05 8:29 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-11-05 8:37 ` Joshua J. Kugler
2009-11-05 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-11-06 9:54 ` Michael J Gruber
2009-11-09 20:15 ` Joshua J. Kugler
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