Setting up GPG Signing for GitHub on Mac

I know you want to have a verified badge like this next to your commits on github. On one hand, it's awesome. If you're not famous and aren't verified on Twitter, this feels almost as cool. The second reason is because you're reading this article!

Setting up gpg keys can be a little annoying. Even if you follow the simple steps to generate one and let git know about it, you're going to be stuck typing a password on every commit if you don't setup an agent to handle adding it to your keychain for you. I've followed a couple different guides across multiple computers to end up with a combination of them in this guide. With that being said, get started by having homebrew installed, and we'll go from there.

brew install gnupg gnupg2

The following is straight from GitHub

gpg --gen-key

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG

If you're confused about finding your key id, check step 11.

gpg --armor --export KEY_ID

Copy the output from above and add it to GitHub

git config --global commit.gpgsign tr…