verification object that describes the result of verifying the commit's signature. The following fields are included in the verification object:| Name | Type | Description | 
|---|---|---|
verified | boolean | Indicates whether GitHub considers the signature in this commit to be verified. | 
reason | string | The reason for verified value. Possible values and their meanings are enumerated in table below. | 
signature | string | The signature that was extracted from the commit. | 
payload | string | The value that was signed. | 
reason in the verification object:| Value | Description | 
|---|---|
expired_key | The key that made the signature is expired. | 
not_signing_key | The "signing" flag is not among the usage flags in the GPG key that made the signature. | 
gpgverify_error | There was an error communicating with the signature verification service. | 
gpgverify_unavailable | The signature verification service is currently unavailable. | 
unsigned | The object does not include a signature. | 
unknown_signature_type | A non-PGP signature was found in the commit. | 
no_user | No user was associated with the committer email address in the commit. | 
unverified_email | The committer email address in the commit was associated with a user, but the email address is not verified on her/his account. | 
bad_email | The committer email address in the commit is not included in the identities of the PGP key that made the signature. | 
unknown_key | The key that made the signature has not been registered with any user's account. | 
malformed_signature | There was an error parsing the signature. | 
invalid | The signature could not be cryptographically verified using the key whose key-id was found in the signature. | 
valid | None of the above errors applied, so the signature is considered to be verified. | 
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.github.com/repos///git/commits' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "author": {
        "date": "2008-07-09T16:13:30+12:00",
        "email": "octocat@github.com",
        "name": "Mona Octocat"
    },
    "message": "my commit message",
    "parents": [
        "7d1b31e74ee336d15cbd21741bc88a537ed063a0"
    ],
    "signature": "-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\n\niQIzBAABAQAdFiEESn/54jMNIrGSE6Tp6cQjvhfv7nAFAlnT71cACgkQ6cQjvhfv\n7nCWwA//XVqBKWO0zF+bZl6pggvky3Oc2j1pNFuRWZ29LXpNuD5WUGXGG209B0hI\nDkmcGk19ZKUTnEUJV2Xd0R7AW01S/YSub7OYcgBkI7qUE13FVHN5ln1KvH2all2n\n2+JCV1HcJLEoTjqIFZSSu/sMdhkLQ9/NsmMAzpf/iIM0nQOyU4YRex9eD1bYj6nA\nOQPIDdAuaTQj1gFPHYLzM4zJnCqGdRlg0sOM/zC5apBNzIwlgREatOYQSCfCKV7k\nnrU34X8b9BzQaUx48Qa+Dmfn5KQ8dl27RNeWAqlkuWyv3pUauH9UeYW+KyuJeMkU\n+NyHgAsWFaCFl23kCHThbLStMZOYEnGagrd0hnm1TPS4GJkV4wfYMwnI4KuSlHKB\njHl3Js9vNzEUQipQJbgCgTiWvRJoK3ENwBTMVkKHaqT4x9U4Jk/XZB6Q8MA09ezJ\n3QgiTjTAGcum9E9QiJqMYdWQPWkaBIRRz5cET6HPB48YNXAAUsfmuYsGrnVLYbG+\nUpC6I97VybYHTy2O9XSGoaLeMI9CsFn38ycAxxbWagk5mhclNTP5mezIq6wKSwmr\nX11FW3n1J23fWZn5HJMBsRnUCgzqzX3871IqLYHqRJ/bpZ4h20RhTyPj5c/z7QXp\neSakNQMfbbMcljkha+ZMuVQX1K9aRlVqbmv3ZMWh+OijLYVU2bc=\n=5Io4\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n",
    "tree": "827efc6d56897b048c772eb4087f854f46256132"
}'{
    "author": {
        "date": "2014-08-09T08:02:04+12:00",
        "email": "monalisa.octocat@example.com",
        "name": "Monalisa Octocat"
    },
    "committer": {
        "date": "2014-08-09T08:02:04+12:00",
        "email": "monalisa.octocat@example.com",
        "name": "Monalisa Octocat"
    },
    "html_url": "http://example.com",
    "message": "Fix #42",
    "node_id": "string",
    "parents": [
        {
            "html_url": "http://example.com",
            "sha": "7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd",
            "url": "http://example.com"
        }
    ],
    "sha": "7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd",
    "tree": {
        "sha": "7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd",
        "url": "http://example.com"
    },
    "url": "http://example.com",
    "verification": {
        "payload": "string",
        "reason": "string",
        "signature": "string",
        "verified": true
    }
}