Git commit signing on Windows

README.md

Commit signing on Windows

1. Open notepad.exe
2. Open github.com/settings/emails
3. Copy your Github email to notepad (ends with @users.noreply.github.com)
4. Open cmd.exe
5. Create new ssh key

ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "{email}"

You can press enter in the prompts.

6. Open both public and private key files in text editor and then paste them to notepad.exe

7. Backup private and public key and the used email in the following format:

{Day/Month/Year}
{email}

{private key}

{public key}

8. Open github.com/settings/ssh/new
9. Set title to {Day/Month/Year}, value to public key value, key type to signingKey
10. Configure git

git config --global user.name "{username}"
git config --global user.email "{email}"
git config --global user.signingkey "C:\Users\{username}\.ssh\{key_name}.pub"
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
git config --global gpg.format ssh

That's it 👍🏼😊