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mktag doc: update to explain why to use this

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Change the mktag documentation to compare itself to the similar
"hash-object -t tag" command. Before this someone reading the
documentation wouldn't have much of an idea what the difference
was.

Let's allude to our own validation logic, and cross-link the "mktag"
and "hash-object" documentation to aid discover-ability. A follow-up
change to migrate "mktag" to use "fsck" validation will make the part
about validation logic clearer.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2021-01-05 20:42:32 +01:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-mktag(1)
NAME
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git-mktag - Creates a tag object
git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
SYNOPSIS
@ -13,10 +13,19 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object
that can also be used to sign other objects.
The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
This command is mostly equivalent to linkgit:git-hash-object[1]
invoked with `-t tag -w --stdin`. I.e. both of these will create and
write a tag found in `my-tag`:
git mktag <my-tag
git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the
tag doesn't pass a sanity check.
Tag Format
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