Remember GPG password when signing git commits

Would it be possible for the GPG password to be saved, so that I am not prompted for the passphrase everytime I make a git commit?


You can set a timeout period for gpg-agent in ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf with this line:

default-cache-ttl 3600

That would tell gpg-agent to store the passphrase for one hour. You wouldn't want it to be indefinite, but not constantly typing it is of benefit too.


If you are on Mac, I would suggest that you use pinentry-mac. Then you can save the password to the macOS keychain.

Install with brew install pinentry-mac, and then add this line pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf (remove/comment out any other pinentry-program line in that file)