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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2860a3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +git-mktag(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +git-mktag - Creates a tag object + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +'git-mktag' < signature_file + +DESCRIPTION +----------- +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 +---------- +A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of + + object <sha1> + type <typename> + tag <tagname> + +followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself +doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar. + +The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just +because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that +size, you're doing something wrong) + + +Author +------ +Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + +Documentation +-------------- +Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. + +GIT +--- +Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite + |