Bug 544847 - UI in git preferences to configure GPG directories/keyring files
Summary: UI in git preferences to configure GPG directories/keyring files
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 5.3   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2019-02-26 15:32 EST by Thomas Wolf CLA
Modified: 2019-03-03 06:00 EST (History)
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Description Thomas Wolf CLA 2019-02-26 15:32:34 EST 
Cloned from bug 544797:

Holger Voormann wrote:
> It would be great if this feature could be extended to search for GPG keys
> at a list of locations which would be configurable. As long as GPG signing
> is only used by Git, I would expect the preference under "Team > Git >
> Committing".
"This feature" being GPG signing of commits.

I had written:
> Seems like GnuPG at least even allows a user to add arbitrary new files as
> keyrings. ([1], the --keyring and --primary-keyring options).
> 
> Probably we can't do that for 5.3.0; I guess we'd need a UI in the
> preferences somewhere to allow the user to specify the keyrings to use. Or
> maybe there are ways to auto-detect them.
Comment 1 Thomas Wolf CLA 2019-02-26 15:36:39 EST 
Having such a UI would also enable the use of this with GPG keyrings in completely non-standard locations. For instance, if someone uses gpg4usb (https://www.gpg4usb.org/).