From 6dd06d92aad8ccd130b4d46b2ff79b71b148bb2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Théo Zimmermann
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 12:01:24 +0200
Subject: Add note for homebrew users.

---
 dev/doc/MERGING.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

(limited to 'dev/doc')

diff --git a/dev/doc/MERGING.md b/dev/doc/MERGING.md
index 402ed37bdc..3a2df6a81f 100644
--- a/dev/doc/MERGING.md
+++ b/dev/doc/MERGING.md
@@ -115,3 +115,8 @@ creating your own GPG key:
 
 The script depends on a few other utilities. If you are a Nix user, the
 simplest way of getting them is to run `nix-shell` first.
+
+**Note for homebrew (MacOS) users:** it has been reported that installing GnuPG
+is not out of the box. Installing explicitly "pinentry-mac" seems important for
+typing of passphrase to work correctly (see also this
+[Stack Overflow Q-and-A](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39494631/gpg-failed-to-sign-the-data-fatal-failed-to-write-commit-object-git-2-10-0)).
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