git commit signing failed: secret key not available

Question

I am getting this error when trying to commit using Git.

gpg: skipped "name <[email protected]>": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object

I have generated a new key as below but it still gives the same error

gpg --list-keys
~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg
--------------------------------
pub   2048R/35F5FFB2 2016-04-23
uid                  name (New key) <[email protected]>
sub   2048R/112A8C2D 2016-04-23

The secret key is the same as above

I have found this Generating a GPG key for git tagging and followed the steps but it still doesn't work, any idea?

Answer 1

This worked for me on Windows 10 (Note that I use the absolute path to gpg.exe):

git config --global gpg.program "C:Program Files (x86)GnuPGingpg.exe"

This was the error I got prior to the fix:

gpg: skipped "3E81C*******": secret key not available
gpg: signing failed: secret key not available
error: gpg failed to sign the data
fatal: failed to write commit object