git / gpg integration link #7519
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Actually there are more general instructions
dev/doc/MERGING.md
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| are signed. Consequently, it depends on the GnuPG command utility being | |||
| installed and a GPG key being available. Here is a short tutorial to | |||
| creating your own GPG key: | |||
| <https://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/> | |||
| <https://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/>. To link it with | |||
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Why do we link some random blog instead of https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/?
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Because that's the doc recommended by Debian. But it feels like a good idea to change it to the link you gave. Especially since it includes "step 14: add the GPG key to your GitHub account".
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So given @SkySkimmer's remark above and given that the link you added is the general summary page on GitHub and not the specific link https://help.github.com/articles/telling-git-about-your-gpg-key/ that you gave on Gitter, I would say that either the two links are redundant and we should only provide https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg/, or we want to point to more specific things and in this case https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/ + https://help.github.com/articles/telling-git-about-your-gpg-key/ seems like the right combination (and links to the other pages are at the bottom of these pages anyways).
dev/doc/MERGING.md
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| @@ -111,7 +111,8 @@ The merge script passes option `-S` to `git merge` to ensure merge commits | |||
| are signed. Consequently, it depends on the GnuPG command utility being | |||
| installed and a GPG key being available. Here is a short tutorial to | |||
| creating your own GPG key: | |||
| <https://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/> | |||
| <https://ekaia.org/blog/2009/05/10/creating-new-gpgkey/>. To link it with | |||
| git & github, follow https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-with-gpg/. | |||
Simpler
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I simplified, that should be good now |
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@mattam82 Be careful that by using GitHub edit feature, you actually created a new branch on the main repo instead of your fork. |
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