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6 git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
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9 git mktag
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12 Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
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15 This command is mostly equivalent to git-hash-object(1) invoked with -t
16 tag -w --stdin. I.e. both of these will create and write a tag found in
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20 git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
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22 The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the tag
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25 The "fsck" check done mktag is stricter than what git-fsck(1) would run
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29 Extra headers in the object are also an error under mktag, but ignored
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52 a signature that Git itself doesn’t care about, but that can be
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56 Part of the git(1) suite
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