August 10, 2024

Git: Add the keyid of a signing GPG keypair to git config and sign commits

gpg -k --with-subkey-fingerprint user_id # show the keyid of your keypairs
git config --global user.signingKey keyid # add the keyid of a signing keypair to git config 
git ci -S -m "message of your commit" # the option -S signs the commit
git log --show-signature -1 # check that the last commit was signed

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