git-mktag(1) Git Manual git-mktag(1)
NAME
git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
SYNOPSIS
git mktag
DESCRIPTION
Reads a tag's contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
This command is mostly equivalent to git-hash-object(1) invoked with -t
tag -w --stdin. I.e. both of these will create and write a tag found in
my-tag:
git mktag <my-tag
git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the tag
doesn't pass a git-fsck(1) check.
The "fsck" check done by mktag is stricter than what git-fsck(1) would
run by default in that all fsck.<msg-id> messages are promoted from
warnings to errors (so e.g. a missing "tagger" line is an error).
Extra headers in the object are also an error under mktag, but ignored
by git-fsck(1). This extra check can be turned off by setting the
appropriate fsck.<msg-id> variable:
git -c fsck.extraHeaderEntry=ignore mktag <my-tag-with-headers
OPTIONS
--strict
By default mktag turns on the equivalent of git-fsck(1) --strict
mode. Use --no-strict to disable it.
TAG FORMAT
A tag signature file, to be fed to this command's standard input, has a
very simple fixed format: four lines of
object <hash>
type <typename>
tag <tagname>
tagger <tagger>
followed by some optional free-form message (some tags created by older
Git may not have a tagger line). The message, when it 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 git(1) suite
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