On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Mike Marshall <hubcap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > it's in my tree now and I'll push it out after
>
> That is beyond awesome!
>
> I tried to make a signed tag, but never got past:
>
> "You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key..."
>
> it just sat there waiting for me to... do something?
> I was ssh'd into my workstation at work, perhaps
> the prompt came out there?
Hmm. Are you running gpg-agent? That apparently gets confused easily.
Normally "git tag -s" should ask you to write a tag message (using the
same editor you write your commit messages with).
It should just ask for your passphrase, looking something like this:
You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
user: "xyz"
key-details-go-here
Enter passphrase:
but I've seen gpg-agent get confused before. Are you sure you have a
working gpg setup on that machine? It might also be that there's a GUI
window open on your workstation that you can't see over ssh.
I love the convenience of gpg-agent, but quite frankly, I gave up on
it years ago because of how fragile it was (although honestly, I think
most of the fragility I saw was with the gnome keyring integration, so
I don't know who to blame - I just decided that it's easier to type my
passphrases than it is to try to figure out which part of the mess was
broken).
Linus
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