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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 2860a3d1ba..65e167a5c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ git-mktag - Creates a tag object SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-mktag' < signature_file +[verse] +'git mktag' < signature_file DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -19,29 +20,19 @@ The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. Tag Format ---------- -A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of +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 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>. +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 gitlink:git[7] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |