git commit fails - error: gpg failed to sign the data

[JayDub72]

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I am unable to commit my staged changes. I type in a message for the commit and receive an error message "Unable to commit. error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object"

I am able to execute a git commit -m "blah blah" command via terminal and it works perfectly (it prompts me for my passphrase and the commits the changes). I am never prompted for my passphrase from Atom. I have already made sure that my username and email are in the .gitconfig file as well set the helper to osxkeychain. I have also made sure that the username and password are in the keychain for github.

Thanks!

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open Atom // project with files from github
2. Toggle Git tab to be visible
3. Modify file(s)
4. Promote file to staged changes
5. Enter commit message and click Commit

[JayDub72]

Update: Installed this on a fresh Mac and did NOT have the problem. I was prompted for the username and passphrase the first time I tried to commit. Worked flawlessly after that. No clue why it won't work on the original Mac. I will try clean uninstall and rebuild.

[JayDub72]

Removing and reinstalling did not fix the problem. I removed the .atom directory as well when I did a fresh install.

[Fryuni]

This is a git configuration problem You probably have the option commit.gpgsign=true in your git config, which requires every commit to be signed with a GPG key, and don't have a propperly configured GPG key for signing commits

You can check which level of the git configurations has this option enabled:

git config --local -l
git config --global -l
git config --system -l

When you find where it is:

git config --[local|global|system] --unset commit.gpgSign

[nmanikumar5]

This will help you to get rid of it

git config --global commit.gpgsign false

[Erik-Handeland]

This is what worked for me

git config --global commit.gpgsign false