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: four lines of 23 24 object <sha1> 25 type <typename> 26 tag <tagname> 27 tagger <tagger> 28 29followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created 30by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when 31exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The 32message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't 33care about, but that can be verified with gpg. 34 35GIT 36--- 37Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite