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Add Yubkikey GPG to a machine

My yubikey GPG key is on Keybase.io so this imports it locally:

curl https://keybase.io/mecrawlings/key.asc | gpg --import

Once I have the key locally I need to trust it:

gpg --edit-key <keyid>

trust then option 5 ultimate trust

Using my backup

My private is key is also on a USB stick
set the GNUPGHOME to the directory on the stick to modify it

Signing git commits

The dreaded error: gpg failed to sign the data

My fix of the error: gpg failed to sign the data error

make sure the name set with git config user.name matches the key ID exactly otherwise it will not work!
list the key ids with gpg --list-secret-keys
check both email address and name
check the same values are in the git config either globally or locally to the repo

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