git mktag <my-tag git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
Creates a tag object
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Description
Reads a tag 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:
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 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> varible:
git -c fsck.extraHeaderEntry=ignore mktag <my-tag-with-headers
Options
- --strict
-
By default mktag turns on the equivalent of git-fsck[1]
--strictmode. Use--no-strictto 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 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