git/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
Junio C Hamano 6cfec03680 mktag: minimally update the description.
It lacked a description for the (historically) optional tagger header line.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-10 16:00:36 -07:00

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git-mktag(1)
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NAME
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git-mktag - Creates a tag object
SYNOPSIS
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'git-mktag' < signature_file
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.
Tag Format
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A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
object <sha1>
type <typename>
tag <tagname>
tagger <tagger>
followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when
exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The
message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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