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NAME

       git-mktag - Creates a tag object

SYNOPSIS

       git mktag < signature_file

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 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.

AUTHOR

       Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org[1]>

DOCUMENTATION

       Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list
       <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.

GIT

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES

        1. torvalds@osdl.org
           mailto:torvalds@osdl.org

        2. git@vger.kernel.org
           mailto:git@vger.kernel.org