Auto-sign commits with IntelliJ on MacOS

auto-sign-commits-mac.md

Run:

• brew install gnupg pinentry-mac
• git config --global user.signingkey <key>
• git config --global commit.gpgsign true
• git config --global gpg.program gpg

Then add the following line to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac

or, if using the new Homebrew location:

pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac

Thanks for this useful Gist!

I wanted to mention that the first step can be shortened:

brew install gnupg pinentry-mac

There is no longer a need to specify gnupg2 because it has been renamed to gnupg, as documented here.

I also found that this step is not strictly necessary:

git config --global gpg.program gpg

If gpg.program is not specified, Git will use gpg by default, as documented here.

One can also install GnuPG from its official site, follow GitHub's guide to create a signing key and then run git config --global user.signingkey <key> && git config --global commit.gpgsign true && git config --global gpg.program gpg2 to auto-sign commits in PyCharm.

I tried this and I get invalid option for both .conf files when running gpg-agent. Is gpg-agent even required for this solution?

thanks a lot, for saving my day!

Thanks, super helpful 🙌

I had to restart my gpg-agent after applying the configuration change: gpgconf --kill gpg-agent (no need to restart it - it will be restarted automatically as soon as you try to interact with your keys, e.g. gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format long)