X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-mktag.txt;h=82db9f5d8fa060bfbb19dabf8d2a6f3fb4db5c42;hb=6b2f2d9805dd22c6f74957e0d76a1d2921b40c16;hp=2860a3d1ba54c712bb30febfa37693f3efbdb7bf;hpb=521a3f676794987bfd03703fe58fbec46ed69d49;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 2860a3d1b..82db9f5d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -19,18 +19,18 @@ The output is the new tag's 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 type tag + 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 @@ -43,5 +43,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list