| git-mktag(1) | 
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 | NAME | 
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 | git-mktag - Creates a tag object | 
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 | SYNOPSIS | 
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 | [verse] | 
 | 'git mktag' | 
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 | DESCRIPTION | 
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 | Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object | 
 | that can also be used to sign other objects. | 
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 | The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. | 
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 | Tag Format | 
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 | A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input, | 
 | has a very simple fixed format: four lines of | 
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 |   object <sha1> | 
 |   type <typename> | 
 |   tag <tagname> | 
 |   tagger <tagger> | 
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 | 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. | 
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 | GIT | 
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 | Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |