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

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)