| Configuring Git |
| =============== |
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| This chapter describes maintainer level git configuration. |
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| Tagged branches used in pull requests (see |
| Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst) should be signed with the |
| developers public GPG key. Signed tags can be created by passing |
| ``-u <key-id>`` to ``git tag``. However, since you would *usually* use the same |
| key for the project, you can set it in the configuration and use the ``-s`` |
| flag. To set the default ``key-id`` use:: |
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| git config user.signingkey "keyname" |
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| Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:: |
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| [user] |
| name = Jane Developer |
| email = jd@domain.org |
| signingkey = jd@domain.org |
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| You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``:: |
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| [gpg] |
| program = /path/to/gpg2 |
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| You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell |
| rc file):: |
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| export GPG_TTY=$(tty) |
