sign-git-commits-with-gpg.md

Sign git commits with GPG

You can sign your git commits with a GPG key. To do set it up, follow the Github instructions. Taking this step improves the integrity of git commits.

1. Generate a GPG Key
2. Tell git about your GPG key
3. Set git configuration to sign commits

Sign your commits with the following flags:

git commit -S -m your commit message

Troubleshooting:

On Mac, you may need to download the GPG tools suite.

To have git use gpg2 rather than gpg:

git config --global gpg.program gpg2