Git does not ask me for gpg passphrase and fails my commit

Question

When I do git commit -a -S -m "Commit Message", I get this error:

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Username (Gpg Key) <email-id>" 2048-bit RSA key, ID 2487BE7C, created 2016-10-03  error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object 

But, it doesn't even ask/prompts for my passphrase when I commit. So, how and where do I enter my passphrase while using gpg's -S flag?

Answer 1

I had the similar thing. I had the gpg and gpg2 binaries, both pointing to GPG version 2.0.30. I wasn't being prompted for my passphrase.

In your bash profile (I did it in my .zshrc file) add the following line:

export GPG_TTY=$(tty) 

Answer 2

It stopped prompting me, so I had to kill the daemon

ps aux | grep gpg mark              3129   0.0  0.0  4397952    820   ??  Ss    8Mar19   0:28.84 gpg-agent --homedir /Users/Mark/.gnupg --use-standard-socket --daemon mark             18137   0.0  0.0  4286492    848 s000  R+    3:43pm   0:00.00 grep --color=auto --exclude-dir=.bzr --exclude-dir=CVS --exclude-dir=.git --exclude-dir=.hg --exclude-dir=.svn gpg 

then

sudo kill -9 3129 

Then it worked. It may be a slightly different issue.