Signing your commits in git

Mario Fernández
3 min readMar 22, 2021
We’ll need your signature, mister

I’ve gotten into the habit at work of signing my commits in git with my GPG key. It adds an extra layer of integrity to the source code, as it enables us to know who produced each commit (if the practice is followed widely).

It requires some initial configuration, but after that, it adds very little overhead.

Even if your organization doesn’t have a policy requiring it, I think it’s still…

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Mario Fernández

I develop software for a living. Then I go home and I continue reading about software, because I just cannot get enough. Nowadays I work for ThoughtWorks.