VSCode Git Error With Commit Signing

[Quadriphobs1]

• VSCode Version: 1.51.0
• OS Version: MacOs Catalina

Using the terminal to commit when git commit signing is turned on on the machine often fails at times, this doesn't happen every time but it happens occasionally like 7/10 times.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Enable git code signing
2. Work on some changes ready to commit
3. Using the terminal to commit git commit
4. After typing your commit message, when its meant to show the git signing wizard, it throws the error

gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object

Tried this with other terminals, iTerm2 but can't experience same issue

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

[Quadriphobs1]

Actually, digging further on this it only happens if there is a githook, without githook this works fine.

[Xmetalfanx]

Just experienced this on a KDE Neon (Linux) install, with VSCode version 1.53.2 .... it was just fine for awhile (so it's not like it never asked for the gpg passphrase) ... not sure exactly what update (to vscode or just the OS) was done when this issue started.

This is the termminal IN vscode that is doing this for me ... if I open up Konsole (Terminal) and do the same thing in the same directory/folder ... it works fine.

[Tyriar]

This type of issue is typically related to environment differences between VS Code's terminal and the external terminal. You can try diffing the two environments by printing them (eg. env, Get-ChildItem env:) and investigating any differences.

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