test-git

Just exploring git features

Process summary for signing commits

1. Make sure your details are set from github:

   git config --global user.email 'your.git@email.address'
   git config --global user.name 'your name'
   

2. Tell Git to use ssh when signing (second line contains id_rsa.pub):

   git config --global gpg.format ssh
   git config --global user.signingKey 'ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3(...)qiXsb user@host'
   

3. If you want all commits signed by default (so you don't need to use '-S' to sign):

   git config --global commit.gpgsign true
   git config --global tag.gpgsign true
   

If you want to use ssh for git push, change the URL of your origin repo from https to ssh. For example: to change from https://github.com/yourusername/reponame to git@github.com:yourusername/reponame, check the current origin with git remote get-url origin then change it with git remote set-url origin git@github.com/yourusername/reponame.

Troubleshooting

• You can test that ssh to github is working like so:

  ssh -T git@github.com
  

References

I used these pages to work this stuff out:

• https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2021/11/16/git-ssh-signatures/