git-mktag − Creates a tag object
git−mktag < signature_file
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.
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.
Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]>
Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git−list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.
Part of the git(1) suite
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torvalds AT osdl DOT org |
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git AT vger DOT kernel DOT org |
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