Can't enter GPG password for git commit and it just hangs

[FultonBrowne]

Describe the issue

If the user has gpg enabled commit signing enabled (something frequesntly required at companies with strict security vapor new will just hang with no user feedback

Vapor version

4.113.2

Operating system and version

15.3.1 (24D70)

Swift version

Swift Package Manager - Swift 6.0.3

Steps to reproduce

Have GPG or SSH signing enabled https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/managing-commit-signature-verification/about-commit-signature-verification
Run vapor new and it will just hang once it gets to creating the commit.

Outcome

My first exprience using Vapor toolbox involved me having to ^c out

Additional notes

As for a solution, make the commit portion interactive (I believe that is what create-next-app does) or you could enable and disable signing on the repo level. I'm willing to put in patches if you guys know what direction you'd like to go.

[0xTim]

Hmm yeah I wonder if there's a way to detect the input required and fork out so that the user can make the first commit. We probably don't want to allow the user to enter the password via the toolbox for security reasons

cc @fpseverino

[fpseverino]

While we look for a solution to your specific problem, you can use the --no-commit flag which disables the automatic creation of the first commit, so that you can do it later with all the necessary requirements

[gwynne]

This usually means that pinentry and pinentry-mac are either not installed or not properly configured (i.e. by running brew install pinentry-mac and adding pinentry-program /opt/homebrew/bin/pinentry-mac to ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf as per the instructions given by Homebrew on installation).