Signed commits with GitX

I recently setup Git to use my Keybase GPG key to automatically sign my commits. GitX doesn’t support that out of the box — but a quick git wrapper makes it work like a charm.

First, if you haven’t yet, enable signing on all of your commits. In ~/.gitconfig:

[commit]
  gpgsign = true

Create the script. It must be named git, so you don’t want to put it anywhere in your $PATH. For example:

mkdir -p ~/.gitx
touch ~/.gitx/git
chmod +x ~/.gitx/git

Add this to the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

args=("$@")

if [[ "$1" = "commit-tree" ]] && [[ "$(git config --get commit.gpgsign)" = "true" ]]; then
  args=("commit-tree" "-S" "${args[@]:1}")
fi

git "${args[@]}"

In GitX go to Preferences > General, click the Git Executable box, and select the script you’ve just created.

To test, make a commit with GitX. To see if it has been signed properly, run git log --pretty="format:%G?" -1. If you see G, it works!