X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-mktag.txt;h=ea7a75234a91b0dade03b8e19d4ba7d0d1a82f63;hb=57bd934ea69f0151b729b74fd77629b94920cca7;hp=2860a3d1ba54c712bb30febfa37693f3efbdb7bf;hpb=c63a3ad2c1d6f86cd7989055a133e06055239317;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 2860a3d1b..ea7a75234 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 @@ -44,4 +44,3 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list