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 [verse]
  12 'git mktag'
  13
  14 DESCRIPTION
  15 -----------
  16 Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object
  17 that can also be used to sign other objects.
  18
  19 The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
  20
  21 Tag Format
  22 ----------
  23 A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input,
  24 has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
  25
  26   object <sha1>
  27   type <typename>
  28   tag <tagname>
  29   tagger <tagger>
  30
  31 followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
  32 by older Git may not have `tagger` line).  The message, when
  33 exists, is separated by a blank line from the header.  The
  34 message part may contain a signature that Git itself doesn't
  35 care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
  36
  37 GIT
  38 ---
  39 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite