Benjamin Gondy bgondy

Methods of Signing Git Commits on MacOS

Last updated March 13, 2024

This Gist explains how to sign commits using gpg in a step-by-step fashion. Previously, krypt.co was heavily mentioned, but I've only recently learned they were acquired by Akamai and no longer update their previous free products. Those mentions have been removed.

Additionally, 1Password now supports signing Git commits with SSH keys and makes it pretty easy-plus you can easily configure Git Tower to use it for both signing and ssh.

For using a GUI-based GIT tool such as Tower or Github Desktop, follow the steps here for signing your commits with GPG.

Background

Security in a single CouchDB can only be set up to do either:

Everyone can read/write everything (admin party)
Everyone can read, some can write
Some can read everything, and those same people can write everything

So in the very common situation where you want user data to be private, the current best practice is to give every user a database. This sounds nuts at first, but it turns out that databases are cheap in CouchDB; Cloudant boasts that 100k databases in a single Couch is not uncommon (source).

	// gcc -O2 -Wall -pedantic process-mysqldump.c -o process-mysqldump
	// Usage: cat dump.sql \| process-mysqldump
	// Or : process-mysqldump dump.sql

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdbool.h>
	#include <string.h>

	#define BUFFER 100000

	# Put this in your ~/.gitconfig or ~/.config/git/config
	# Windows users: "~" is your profile's home directory, e.g. C:\Users\<YourName>
	[user]
	name = Your Full Name
	email = [email protected]
	[color]
	# Enable colors in color-supporting terminals
	ui = auto
	[alias]
	# List available aliases

	#!/bin/bash

	7z a -x'!*/.git' $1.7z $1