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NAME

6       git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
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SYNOPSIS

9       git mktag
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DESCRIPTION

12       Reads a tag’s contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The
13       output is the new tag’s <object> identifier.
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15       This command is mostly equivalent to git-hash-object(1) invoked with -t
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19           git mktag <my-tag
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 by mktag is stricter than what git-fsck(1) would
26       run by default in that all fsck.<msg-id> messages are promoted from
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29       Extra headers in the object are also an error under mktag, but ignored
30       by git-fsck(1). This extra check can be turned off by setting the
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OPTIONS

36       --strict
37           By default mktag turns on the equivalent of git-fsck(1) --strict
38           mode. Use --no-strict to disable it.
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TAG FORMAT

41       A tag signature file, to be fed to this command’s standard input, has a
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49       followed by some optional free-form message (some tags created by older
50       Git may not have a tagger line). The message, when it exists, is
51       separated by a blank line from the header. The message part may contain
52       a signature that Git itself doesn’t care about, but that can be
53       verified with gpg.
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GIT

56       Part of the git(1) suite
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