1git-mktag(1) 2============ 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-mktag - Creates a tag object 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11[verse] 12'git mktag' < signature_file 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 has a very simple fixed format: four lines of 24 25 object <sha1> 26 type <typename> 27 tag <tagname> 28 tagger <tagger> 29 30followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created 31by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when 32exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The 33message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't 34care about, but that can be verified with gpg. 35 36GIT 37--- 38Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite