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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea7a752 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +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: 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 +------ +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 |