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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/config.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-tag.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index 3f2fa09a87..6ea7c76a6a 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -469,6 +469,13 @@ user.name:: Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME' environment variables. See gitlink:git-commit-tree[1]. +user.signingkey:: + If gitlink:git-tag[1] is not selecting the key you want it to + automatically when creating a signed tag, you can override the + default selection with this variable. This option is passed + unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key + using any method that gpg supports. + whatchanged.difftree:: The default gitlink:git-diff-tree[1] arguments to be used for gitlink:git-whatchanged[1]. diff --git a/Documentation/git-tag.txt b/Documentation/git-tag.txt index 13c7aefbf3..3f01e0bfc5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-tag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-tag.txt @@ -70,6 +70,16 @@ OPTIONS Take the tag message from the given file. Use '-' to read the message from the standard input. +CONFIGURATION +------------- +By default, git-tag in sign-with-default mode (-s) will use your +committer identity (of the form "Your Name <your@email.address>") to +find a key. If you want to use a different default key, you can specify +it in the repository configuration as follows: + +[user] + signingkey = <gpg-key-id> + Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, |