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)