Re: [PATCH] maint.mk: don't require explicit gpg_key_ID in cfg.mk

[Eric Blake]

Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net> writes:

> I've long wanted to avoid hard-coding my GPG key ID
> in each project's cfg.mk file.  The stumbling block was
> how to derive the key ID from the tag signature.
> I wanted to avoid relying on the content of gpgv's (gpg --verify's)
> diagnostic, but it seems other tools (at least one perl module)
> do precisely that, so maybe it's good enough.
> 
> If anyone knows of a better way, please tell us.

Should we try:

git config user.signingkey

then fall back to gpgv if that fails to output anything?

At any rate, the general idea of this patch seems great to me.

-- 
Eric Blake