| Configuring Git | |
| =============== | |
| This chapter describes maintainer level git configuration. | |
| Tagged branches used in pull requests (see | |
| Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst) should be signed with the | |
| developers public GPG key. Signed tags can be created by passing | |
| ``-u <key-id>`` to ``git tag``. However, since you would *usually* use the same | |
| key for the project, you can set it in the configuration and use the ``-s`` | |
| flag. To set the default ``key-id`` use:: | |
| git config user.signingkey "keyname" | |
| Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:: | |
| [user] | |
| name = Jane Developer | |
| email = jd@domain.org | |
| signingkey = jd@domain.org | |
| You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``:: | |
| [gpg] | |
| program = /path/to/gpg2 | |
| You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell | |
| rc file):: | |
| export GPG_TTY=$(tty) |