On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 01:58, Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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>". -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html