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Git with Python

There are times when you want to do the source code management programmatically, and here comes GitPython. GitPython wraps the git commands so that you can execute most git functions from within Python (and without using shutils or subprocess). The example code snippet below shows how to do a “git clone” and if the destination is already there, it will try a “git checkout” first from the “master” branch if it exists then the “main” branch if the master branch does not exist.

try:
    git.Repo.clone_from(remote_repo, local_repo)
except GitCommandError as error:
    if error.status == 128:
        repo = git.Repo(local_repo)
        branch = 'master'
        try:
            repo.git.checkout(branch)
        except GitCommandError:
            branch = 'main'  
            repo.git.checkout(branch)
                
    else:
        msg = ' '.join(error.command)
        msg += error.stderr
        sys.exit(f'Error in running git: {msg}.')
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Signing Git Commit using GPG

I have been enjoying using Magit in Emacs to do all the git related stuff and run into an error when tagging a release. The error message is

git … tag --annotate --sign -m my_msg
error: gpg failed to sign the data
error: unable to sign the tag

This turned out to be caused by the fact that I have not set up gpg signing and signature. Below is how the problem is fixed and from now on all my git commits are going to be signed.

$ gpg --gen-key

There were a few dialogues between these commands, e.g. asking for names, e-mail, secret key, and it is recommended that you type random keys after these questions so that when gpg generate randoms there is more entropy. In the end, you will see some text with a line like this:

gpg: key 404NOTMYREALKEYID marked as ultimately trusted

This string “404NOTMYREALKEYID” is the key id. The same key id also shows up in the output of the following command:

$ gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
.....
---------------------------
sec   rsa3072/404NOTMYREALKEYID ......

Finally, just registering this key id with git. And the problem is solved. So the problem is not in Magit, but my configuration, since Magit uses the “–sign” option when it calls Git, which is actually a good practice.

$ git config --global commit.gpgsign true
$ git config --global user.signingkey 404NOTMYREALKEYID