From 1b593e1ea4d2af0f6444d9a7788d5d99abd6fde5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vincent Ambo Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 23:36:56 +0000 Subject: Squashed 'third_party/git/' content from commit cb71568594 git-subtree-dir: third_party/git git-subtree-split: cb715685942260375e1eb8153b0768a376e4ece7 --- Documentation/git-mktag.txt | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/git-mktag.txt (limited to 'Documentation/git-mktag.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..fa6a7561236f --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +git-mktag(1) +============ + +NAME +---- +git-mktag - Creates a tag object + + +SYNOPSIS +-------- +[verse] +'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 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 + type + tag + 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 linkgit:git[1] suite -- cgit 1.4.1