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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-06-10 16:00:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2007-06-10 16:00:36 -0700 |
| commit | 6cfec0368038ec4c564798701e95a84658e6b705 (patch) | |
| tree | 8408a699f85ba81096f872493e6440dc99a1d203 | |
| parent | Makefile: add an explicit rule for building assembly output (diff) | |
| download | tgif-6cfec0368038ec4c564798701e95a84658e6b705.tar.xz | |
mktag: minimally update the description.
It lacked a description for the (historically) optional tagger header line.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-mktag.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 0ac3be10c7..ea7a75234a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -19,18 +19,18 @@ The output is the new tag's <object> identifier. Tag Format ---------- -A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of +A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of object <sha1> type <typename> tag <tagname> + tagger <tagger> -followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself -doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar. - -The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just -because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that -size, you're doing something wrong) +followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created +by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when +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. Author |