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git-mktag(1)
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NAME
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git-mktag - Creates a tag object
 
 
SYNOPSIS
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'git-mktag' < signature_file
 
DESCRIPTION
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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
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
 
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite