1git-mktag(1) 2============ 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-mktag - Creates a tag object 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 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: three lines of 24 25 object <sha1> 26 type <typename> 27 tag <tagname> 28 29followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself 30doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar. 31 32The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just 33because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that 34size, you're doing something wrong) 35 36 37Author 38------ 39Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 40 41Documentation 42-------------- 43Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 44 45GIT 46--- 47Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 48