How to sign commits on GitHub with GPG

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Post by timmywil » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 3:40 PM UTC

How to sign commits on GitHub with GPG
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Re: How to sign commits on GitHub with GPG

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Post by snassar » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

Author might want to check with the GnuPG developers again:

He writes: If you’re using 64-bit Windows, don’t try to install GPG directly from the GPG website . It’s not supported. Gpg4win works just fine.

The page he sites: https://www.gnupg.org/download/supported_systems.html says:

NB: The information in this page is heavily outdated. GnuPG works very well on almost all 32 and 64 bit platforms.

Re: How to sign commits on GitHub with GPG

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Post by timmywil » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 5:35 PM UTC

snassar wrote: post #2

Author might want to check with the GnuPG developers again: He writes: If you’re using 64-bit Windows, don’t try to install GPG directly from the GPG website . It’s not supported. Gpg4win works just fine. The page he sites: https://www.gnupg.org/download/supported_systems.html says: NB: The information in this page is heavily outdated. GnuPG works very well on almost all 32 and 64 bit platforms.

Thanks! I didn't notice the note at the top. I'll edit the article to reflect this.

Re: How to sign commits on GitHub with GPG

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Post by snassar » Fri, Jul 01, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

timmywil wrote: post #3

snassar wrote: post #2

Author might want to check with the GnuPG developers again: He writes: If you’re using 64-bit Windows, don’t try to install GPG directly from the GPG website . It’s not supported. Gpg4win works just fine. The page he sites: https://www.gnupg.org/download/supported_systems.html says: NB: The information in this page is heavily outdated. GnuPG works very well on almost all 32 and 64 bit platforms.

Thanks! I didn't notice the note at the top. I'll edit the article to reflect this.

You are welcome. I tried finding a way to contact you from the medium article that didn't require signing up to or signing into something. I gave up after trying to comment on the article directly and only finding Twitter and Facebook links.

I'm about to update some tutorials that depend on GnuPG working on 64bit Windows and was worried that I'd need to modify my plans. Your particle made me take another look at the documentation and to re-check some assumptions. Thank you.