paolocarrasco

Problem

You have installed GPG, then tried to perform a git commit and suddenly you see this error message after it 😰

error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object

Understand the error (important to solve it later!)

cezaraugusto

For troubleshooting, two things to first try:

run `git config --global gpg.program gpg2`, to make sure git uses gpg2 and not gpg
run `echo "test" | gpg2 --clearsign`, to make sure gpg2 itself is working
If that all looks all right, one next thing to try:

run `brew install pinentry` to ensure you have a good tool installed for passphrase entry
If after that install and you re-try git commit and still get the "failed to sign the data" error:

run `gpgconf --kill gpg-agent` to kill any running agent that might be hung