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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-mktag.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
index fa070e21a0..79813ff8df 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ 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 linkgit:git-fsck[1]
+by linkgit: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
Tag Format
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