On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Austin, > > On Mon, 23 May 2016, Austin English wrote: > >> As stated in title, I'd like to see an option to enable GPG signature >> by default. > > I see an option was mentioned in the mail's subject line, but no > indication which command you want to assume implicitly that this option > was passed. > > Care to elaborate? My mistake, 'git show'. >> I find this feature very useful and would like to enable it by default >> on my machine, without having to resort to an alias in my ~/.bash_rc. > > You probably meant $HOME/.bashrc. Well $HOME and ~ are functionally equivalent on bash, but yes I did mistake the filename, thanks. >> I asked in #git and checked the git repo, but I didn't see an option >> listed for this. > > Since you are already a Git user, why not just use Git itself to > investigate further? It is easy: > > 1. clone https://github.com/git/git > 2. run `git grep show-signature` to figure out where this option is handled > 3. open the corresponding file and find out where the flag is stored > 4. use `git grep` again to determine whether there is another way to set > that flag I used git to verify that there were no options for signature, which led me to file a bug, but in the absence of a bug tracker, to this mailing list. > If there is no other way, why not go the whole nine yards and just come up > with a patch? That is how many, many other improvements were made: users > wanted a certain feature and then just went ahead and made it all happen. > > You will find it a rewarding experience, and you will also find that you > will receive excellent help on this mailing list when you demonstrate your > willingness to invest some of your own time into that project. I'll keep that in mind. I have a full time job and several other open source projects that I contribute to, so if I can find time, I'll try to submit my own patch. In the meantime, it seems appropriate to file a bug so that others can have the opportunity to solve the problem if they're interested. -- -Austin -- 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