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Fixing signing commits gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object on macOS Mojave
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Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39494631/gpg-failed-to-sign-the-data-fatal-failed-to-write-commit-object-git-2-10-0

Auto-sign commits on MacOS (Globally and with different IDEs):

Get your signingkey in this way.

$ brew install gnupg gnupg2 pinentry-mac
$ git config --global user.signingkey <YOUR_SIGNING_KEY>
$ git config --global commit.gpgsign true
$ git config --global gpg.program gpg

Put the following in gpg.conf file (edit file with nano ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf command):

no-tty

Put the following in gpg-agent.conf file (edit file with nano ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf command):

pinentry-program /usr/local/bin/pinentry-mac

Credits go to: Shayan Amani https://stackoverflow.com/a/47087248

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