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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-06-10 16:00:36 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-06-10 16:00:36 -0700
commit6cfec0368038ec4c564798701e95a84658e6b705 (patch)
tree8408a699f85ba81096f872493e6440dc99a1d203 /Documentation
parentMakefile: add an explicit rule for building assembly output (diff)
downloadtgif-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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mktag.txt14
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.
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