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4 <sect2 lang="en" id="git-mktag(1)">
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5 <title>git-mktag(1)</title>
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7 <primary>git-mktag(1)</primary>
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9 <simplesect id="git-mktag(1)__name">
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11 <simpara>git-mktag - Creates a tag object</simpara>
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13 <simplesect id="git-mktag(1)__synopsis">
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14 <title>SYNOPSIS</title>
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16 <literallayout><emphasis>git mktag</emphasis> < signature_file</literallayout>
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19 <simplesect id="git-mktag(1)__description">
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20 <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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21 <simpara>Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object
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22 that can also be used to sign other objects.</simpara>
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23 <simpara>The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.</simpara>
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25 <simplesect id="git-mktag(1)__tag_format">
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26 <title>Tag Format</title>
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27 <simpara>A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of</simpara>
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28 <literallayout class="monospaced">object <sha1>
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29 type <typename>
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31 tagger <tagger></literallayout>
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32 <simpara>followed by some <emphasis>optional</emphasis> free-form message (some tags created
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33 by older git may not have <emphasis>tagger</emphasis> line). The message, when
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34 exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The
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35 message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
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36 care about, but that can be verified with gpg.</simpara>
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38 <simplesect id="git-mktag(1)__git">
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40 <simpara>Part of the <xref linkend="git(1)" /> suite</simpara>
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