From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:00:36 +0000 (-0700) Subject: mktag: minimally update the description. X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3-rc0~127 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6cfec0368038ec4c564798701e95a84658e6b705;p=git.git mktag: minimally update the description. It lacked a description for the (historically) optional tagger header line. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 0ac3be10c..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