How to Sign Commits in Git for Fish Shell

Hi there 👋!

Prerequisite:

• GPG Installed
• Git Installed

Fish Shell

• Generating GPG Key

gpg --full-gen-key

• After generation of your GPG Key, run gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG to list your GPG Keys

• Now Copy The ID like this

• Tell Git about your signing Key, make sure that you have configured git name and email

git config --global user.signingkey ED267DF4249ACCC3

git config --global gpg.program (which gpg)

git config --global commit.gpgsign true

Here ED267DF4249ACCC3 is my GPG key ID, replace it with yours.

• Now set The value of GPG_TTY value.

set -gx GPG_TTY (tty)

• Add the above line to your config.fish file which is located in $HOME/.config/fish/config.fish

• Now let us test if our GPG works by running

echo "hello" | gpg --clearsign

• If it prompts password for using your GPG key (if any) and generates a sign like above, then your GPG Sign is configured successfully to sign commits

• To sign a commit git commit -S -m "your message"

-You can check for Sign by running git log --show-signature -1

• To get verified, you must add your GPG Key to your github account.

• Export the GPG Public by running gpg --armor --export ED267DF4249ACCC3 remember to replace ED267DF4249ACCC3
  with your own.

• Visit GitHub, login and click your profile icon, select settings

• In the user settings sidebar, click SSH and GPG keys.

• Select SSH And GPG Keys

• Click the add GPG key button

• Paste the GPG that we have copied.
  

• Click the add GPG Key button.

• Now your commits that are signed with it are shown as verified in GitHub 😃

Will Link post for windows CMD and Bash below after ASAP! 🤓

Thanks for reading the Post!, Have a nice day!! 😄

Comments

[Muthu Kumar]

git config --global user.signingkey (gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG | grep sec | awk '{split($0,a,"/"); print a[2]}' | awk '{split($0,a," "); print a[1]}')