git/Documentation/git-mktag.txt

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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