Documentation/git-mktag.txt

   1 git-mktag(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 [verse]
  12 'git mktag'
  13
  14 OPTIONS
  15 -------
  16
  17 --strict::
  18         By default mktag turns on the equivalent of
  19         linkgit:git-fsck[1] `--strict` mode. Use `--no-strict` to
  20         disable it.
  21
  22 DESCRIPTION
  23 -----------
  24
  25 Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
  26 output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
  27
  28 This command is mostly equivalent to linkgit:git-hash-object[1]
  29 invoked with `-t tag -w --stdin`. I.e. both of these will create and
  30 write a tag found in `my-tag`:
  31
  32     git mktag <my-tag
  33     git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
  34
  35 The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the
  36 tag doesn't pass a linkgit:git-fsck[1] check.
  37
  38 The "fsck" check done mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1]
  39 would run by default in that all `fsck.<msg-id>` messages are promoted
  40 from warnings to errors (so e.g. a missing "tagger" line is an error).
  41
  42 Extra headers in the object are also an error under mktag, but ignored
  43 by linkgit:git-fsck[1]. This extra check can be turned off by setting
  44 the appropriate `fsck.<msg-id>` varible:
  45
  46     git -c fsck.extraHeaderEntry=ignore mktag <my-tag-with-headers
  47
  48 Tag Format
  49 ----------
  50 A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input,
  51 has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
  52
  53   object <hash>
  54   type <typename>
  55   tag <tagname>
  56   tagger <tagger>
  57
  58 followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
  59 by older Git may not have `tagger` line).  The message, when it
  60 exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
  61 message part may contain a signature that Git itself doesn't
  62 care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
  63
  64 GIT
  65 ---
  66 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite