GIT-MKTAG

Section: Git Manual (1)
Updated: 09/22/2011
 

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 <m[blue]torvalds@osdl.orgm[][1]>  

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <m[blue]git@vger.kernel.orgm[][2]>.  

GIT

Part of the git(1) suite  

NOTES

1.
torvalds@osdl.org
mailto:torvalds@osdl.org
2.
git@vger.kernel.org
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
TAG FORMAT
AUTHOR
DOCUMENTATION
GIT
NOTES

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