1Configuring Git 2=============== 3 4This chapter describes maintainer level git configuration. 5 6Tagged branches used in pull requests (see 7Documentation/maintainer/pull-requests.rst) should be signed with the 8developers public GPG key. Signed tags can be created by passing 9``-u <key-id>`` to ``git tag``. However, since you would *usually* use the same 10key for the project, you can set it in the configuration and use the ``-s`` 11flag. To set the default ``key-id`` use:: 12 13 git config user.signingkey "keyname" 14 15Alternatively, edit your ``.git/config`` or ``~/.gitconfig`` file by hand:: 16 17 [user] 18 name = Jane Developer 19 email = jd@domain.org 20 signingkey = jd@domain.org 21 22You may need to tell ``git`` to use ``gpg2``:: 23 24 [gpg] 25 program = /path/to/gpg2 26 27You may also like to tell ``gpg`` which ``tty`` to use (add to your shell 28rc file):: 29 30 export GPG_TTY=$(tty) 31