Git commit signing on Windows

README.md

Commit signing on with Git on macOS, Windows and Linux.

Prerequisites:

1. Install gpgtools on macOS and git on Windows or sudo apt-get install gpa seahorse git on Linux.
2. Open notepad.exe
3. Open github.com/settings/emails
4. Copy your Github email to notepad (ends with @users.noreply.github.com)
5. Open cmd.exe
6. Create new ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "{email}"

You can press enter in the prompts.

6. Open both public and private key files in text editor and then paste them to notepad.exe
7. Open github.com/settings/ssh/new
8. Set title to {Day/Month/Year}, value to public key value, key type to signingKey
9. Configure git

git config --global user.name "{username}"
git config --global user.email "{email}"
git config --global user.signingkey "C:\Users\{username}\.ssh\{key_name}.pub"
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git config --global gpg.format ssh

That's it 👍🏼😊