git-mktag(1)
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-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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SYNOPSIS
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-'git-mktag'
+'git-mktag' < signature_file
DESCRIPTION
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-Reads a tag contents from its standard input and creates a tag object.
-The input must be a well formed tag object.
+Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object
+that can also be used to sign other objects.
+
+The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
+
+Tag Format
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+A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
+
+ object <sha1>
+ type <typename>
+ tag <tagname>
+ tagger <tagger>
+
+followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
+by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when
+exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The
+message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
+care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
Author
GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
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+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite