Jeff King, I followed your instruction. But, I still got error when I tag the code. Can you please tell me why? > git config --global user.email garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx git tag -s my-second-tag gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: skipped `Gary Yang <garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx>': secret key not available gpg: signing failed: secret key not available error: gpg failed to sign the tag fatal: unable to sign the tag Thanks, Gary --- On Fri, 11/14/08, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". > To: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 7:57 PM > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:28:44PM -0800, Gary Yang wrote: > > > I got errors and warnings when I used "git tag -s > my-tag". It says, > > "secret key not available". "unable to > sign the tag". > > Probably because it can't find your secret key, like it > says. > > > gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more > information > > gpg: skipped `Gary Yang > <gyang@linux123.(none)>': secret key not available > > gpg: signing failed: secret key not available > > error: gpg failed to sign the tag > > fatal: unable to sign the tag > > > > I ran "gpg --gen-key" and generated keypair. > But, still got the same > > error. Please help. > > Did the key you generated have the email address > "gyang@linux123.(none)"? If not, then that is > your problem. > > You need to tell git who you are, since it is unable to > deduce it from > doing host lookups. Try: > > git config --global user.email garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx > > or whatever email address you used when you created the > key, and then > gpg should find it appropriately. > > -Peff > -- > 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 -- 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
