Topic

Commit Signing

Cryptographic signing of Git commits and tags, usually with SSH, GPG or PGP keys, so that hosts and reviewers can verify who created a change.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

Signed commits and commitlint move the first governance gate onto the developer's laptop

A dev.to walkthrough puts commit signing, commitlint, Gitleaks and OWASP SAST into Husky hooks, then runs commitlint again in GitHub Actions because any developer can skip the local hooks with --no-verify.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+12
Incentives25
Confidence55