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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>
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Junio C Hamano 18 years ago
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Documentation/git-mktag.txt

@ -19,18 +19,18 @@ The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.


Tag Format Tag Format
---------- ----------
A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of


object <sha1> object <sha1>
type <typename> type <typename>
tag <tagname> tag <tagname>
tagger <tagger>


followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar. by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when

exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The
The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
size, you're doing something wrong)




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