Subject: Re: signing tags: user.name assumed to be gpg uid?

From: Peter Vereshagin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:47:21 +0400

Oh Junio want you buy me a mersedes benz?
2009/12/29 13:12:05 -0800 Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> => To Peter Vereshagin :

JCH> > I notice that after I init and config user.name and user.email the
JCH> > user.comment gets taken from ~/.gpg automatically.
JCH> What is "user.comment"?

My probable suggestion about where the gpg key's comment field should be written for config --global. Sorry, it's not from ~/.gnupg

JCH> > Is it a correct behaviour?
JCH> Yes, matching with user.name/user.email (actually committer information)
JCH> is often the most convenient thing to do.

Is it necessary the pgp comment field to be present on the user.name? It isn't for From: in e-mail messages.

JCH> You can use user.signingkey configuration to use a key that doesn't match
JCH> your name, too.

Thanks!

73! Peter pgp: A0E26627 (4A42 6841 2871 5EA7 52AB  12F8 0CE1 4AAC A0E2 6627)
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