How can I get GPG Agent to cache my password?
In addition to setting up the cache times in gpg-agent.conf
, you also have to make sure GnuPG is actually interfacing the gpg-agent
. GnuPG 2 and upwards generally does, but the GnuPG 1 branch does not. By default git is using the gpg
binary, which (at the time of writing this answer) still is GnuPG 1, while GnuPG 2 is installed as gpg2
on most systems.
In the end, you have two possibilities:
set up git to use
gpg2
by changing the git configuration:git config --global gpg.program gpg2
- set up
gpg
(GnuPG 1) to usegpg-agent
by addinguse-agent
togpg.conf