Desktop Git users struggle to set up GPG signing
Developers who sign Git commits or tags can find GPG signing hard to configure from desktop Git clients, and may have to fall back to terminal commands or ask others for workarounds. Another part of the workflow is retrieving and entering a GPG key’s passphrase. The signals span several clients and years, so they establish a recurring integration pain but do not show whether the specific client gaps remain today.
For developers who use desktop Git clients and GPG. Mentioned from Mar 2016 to Jan 2025 on product forums and GitHub.
4 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 7.0/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Professionals
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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Any news on this? Essential functionality and has been open for over a year
I've heard whispers about it being possible to set up even though we currently lack first class support for it in the app (@shiftkey?) so if someone has got it working please feel free to share your workarounds here
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