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: three lines of 
object <sha1>
type <typename>
tag <tagname>
followed by some optional free-form signature that git itself doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar.

The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that size, you're doing something wrong)

AUTHOR 

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

DOCUMENTATION 

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

GIT 

Part of the (7) suite