Documentation/git-mktag.txt

   1 git-mktag(1)
   2 ============
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-mktag - Creates a tag object
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git mktag' < signature_file
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object
  16 that can also be used to sign other objects.
  17
  18 The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
  19
  20 Tag Format
  21 ----------
  22 A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
  23
  24   object <sha1>
  25   type <typename>
  26   tag <tagname>
  27   tagger <tagger>
  28
  29 followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
  30 by older git may not have `tagger` line).  The message, when
  31 exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
  32 message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
  33 care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
  34
  35 GIT
  36 ---
  37 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite