1git-mktag(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mktag - Creates a tag object 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git mktag' 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object 17that can also be used to sign other objects. 18 19The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. 20 21Tag Format 22---------- 23A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input, 24has a very simple fixed format: four lines of 25 26 object <sha1> 27 type <typename> 28 tag <tagname> 29 tagger <tagger> 30 31followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created 32by older Git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when 33exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The 34message part may contain a signature that Git itself doesn't 35care about, but that can be verified with gpg. 36 37GIT 38--- 39Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite