Hi Linus, I do not understand your email. I used the command, git config --global user.email garyyang6@xxxxxxxxxx But, I still got the same error. Do you have any idea? Thank you, Gary --- On Sun, 11/16/08, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag". > To: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Gary Yang" <garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx>, git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Sunday, November 16, 2008, 4:16 PM > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Jeff King wrote: > > > > 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. > > Side note: sometimes you might want to use a different key > than the one > you use for authorship. Then you can use > > [user] > SigningKey = key > > (or "git config user.signingkey xyz" if you > don't want to edit the > config file manually). > > This can be especially useful if you use different keys for > different > projects, even if you want to be known under the same name > in both. Or > because you want to have the local hostname in your commit > logs, but your > gpg key is using some externally visible > "official" email address. > > Linus -- 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