GPG slows git commit

[Erik Reinertsen]

Ingo, I greatly appreciate your assistance.

>> Additional info
>> Any input would be much appreciated. I am also a beginner with GPG and git,
>> so thanks for your patience in advance.
> 
> First let's have a look at your key. Please run
> gpg --list-secret-keys
> and paste the output for your signing key into your reply.

$ gpg --list-secret-keys
/Users/erik/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
------------------------------
sec   rsa4096 2021-02-08 [SC] [expires: 2021-04-09]
      581F6A88B3F58A4E94A26040153F263741C51DC1
uid           [ultimate] Erik Reinertsen <erikrtn at gmail.com>
ssb   rsa4096 2021-02-08 [E] [expires: 2021-04-09]

> Moreover, let's time gpg signing without git. Run
> echo Hello | time gpg --clearsign

gpg --clearsign  0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 6.696 total


> Additionally, let's check which version of gpg you are using. Run
> gpg --version

$ gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.27
libgcrypt 1.9.2
Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GNU GPL-3.0-or-later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /Users/erik/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
        CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

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Erik