GITSIGN(1)

💖 GITSIGN(1) 💖

okay so this is the manual page for gitsign, and it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, bestie. it's giving keyless git signing and honestly? obsessed.

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✨ NAME ✨

gitsign — keyless Git signing using Sigstore 🦋

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

keyless Git signing with Sigstore!! that's it, that's the whole vibe, that's the pitch 💅✨

🎀 Usage

gitsign [flags] gitsign [command]

👑 Available Commands

• attest — add attestations to Git objects
• completion — generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
• help — help about any command
• initialize — initializes Sigstore root to retrieve trusted certificate and key targets for verification.
• show — show source predicate information
• verify — verify a commit
• verify-tag — verify a tag
• version — print Gitsign version

💅 Flags

• -a, --armor — create ascii armored output 🛡️
• -b, --detach-sign — make a detached signature
• -h, --help — help for gitsign
• --include-certs int — okay so this one's a whole spectrum, listen:
  • -3 is the same as -2, but it omits the issuer when the cert has the Authority Information Access extension.
  • -2 includes all certs except the root.
  • -1 includes all certs.
  • 0 includes no certs.
  • 1 includes the leaf cert.
  • >1 includes n from the leaf.
  • Default is -2. (yes bestie, (default -2), it says it twice and honestly it's right to)
• -u, --local-user string — use USER-ID to sign 🫶
• -s, --sign — make a signature
• --status-fd int — write special status strings to the file descriptor n. (default -1)
• -v, --verify — verify a signature
• --version — print Gitsign version

pro tip from the manpage itself: use "gitsign [command] --help" for more information about a command. go on, click it, the help is literally right there ✨

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okay and just so you know who's speaking: this is gitsign 0.16.1-3, dated July 2026, no cap 💖 thanks for reading the whole page bestie, you ate that 🎀🌈⭐