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