git-mktag(1)

NAME

   git-mktag - Creates a tag object

SYNOPSIS

   git mktag

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, to be fed to this command's standard input, 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.

GIT

   Part of the git(1) suite

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