All,
I really need to tag my source code. But, somehow I am not able. Can someone help?
Thanks in advance!
Gary
--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Gary Yang <garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Gary Yang <garyyang6@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: "secret key not available". "unable to sign the tag".
> To: "Jeff King" <peff@xxxxxxxx>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 8:57 AM
> 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
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