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Setting up SSH key signing with Git

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Every so often I hit a repo that requires Git commit signing, and I groan.

As I hit it again recently, and wondered how to get it set up, I thought I'd write it up as a form of blogumentation.

As I noted in 89 things I know about Git commits:

If I have to sign my commits, SSH key signing makes it almost not awful

So the option I will always want to go for is SSH key signing, so this allows me to turn it on for a given repo in a one-liner:

git config gpg.format ssh && git config user.signingkey ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub && git config commit.gpgsign true

This then sets it on by default, so you don't need to remember to run:

git commit -S

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