1git-mktag(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mktag - Creates a tag object 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-mktag' < signature_file 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object 16that can also be used to sign other objects. 17 18The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. 19 20Tag Format 21---------- 22A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of 23 24 object <sha1> 25 type <typename> 26 tag <tagname> 27 28followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself 29doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar. 30 31The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just 32because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that 33size, you're doing something wrong) 34 35 36Author 37------ 38Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 39 40Documentation 41-------------- 42Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 43 44GIT 45--- 46Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 47