unverified commits in GitHub

Question

In my GitHub Repository i have a branch , with some commits that are unverified, is there any way to change them to verified ?

Answer 1

Unverified means your signature is wrong.

This can be if you commit with the wrong E-Mail/Password, if you haven't uploaded the Signature on GitHub(on that account) or if you've uploaded it wrongly.

I think this is because you use the signature of your main account for committing with the other (maybe non-existing) account (maybe because you activated commit.autosign).

Your signature has to contain the E-Mail address of the account(that committed) and that account has to have the signature (with the E-Mail) uploaded on GitHub.

A commit from a non-existing user cannot be verified on GitHub too.

If you want to verify existing commits, you have to overwrite them.

This involves a force push that forces other people to re-clone the repo. Because of that, you should not force push to master.

You can do this by re-committing it:

git rebase -i <commit before first problematic commit>

After this, your text editor will open up. Change every pick to edit.

After that you'll have to re-commit every commit with the following command:

git commit --author="<name> <<E-Mail(once in brackets, see example)>>" -S --amend --no-edit
git rebase --continue

In the end, you'll have to overwrite the remote by doing

git push --force-with-lease

This is better than git push -f but you should also be careful.

If someone knows a way to do this automatically, tell me in the comments.

example of the commit command:

git commit --author="testuser <[email protected]>" -S --amend --no-edit

You also could do this using the git filter-branch command.

See this for details.