git - gpg onto mac osx: error: gpg failed to sign the data

Question

I installed GPG from brew.

brew install gpg

It is gnupg2-2.0.30_2.

When I commit, I do get a error message:

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Answer 1

Your question assumes that you actually want to sign your commits. If you don't, the fix is very simple - switch off commit signing:

git config --global commit.gpgsign false

In my case I had inherited some default git config settings which included commit signing.