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NAME top

   git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation

SYNOPSIS top

   _git mktag_

DESCRIPTION top

   Reads a tag’s contents on standard input and creates a tag object.
   The output is the new tag’s <object> identifier.

   This command is mostly equivalent to [git-hash-object(1)](../man1/git-hash-object.1.html) invoked
   with **-t tag -w --stdin**. I.e. both of these will create and write a
   tag found in **my-tag**:

       git mktag <my-tag
       git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag

   The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if
   the tag doesn’t pass a [git-fsck(1)](../man1/git-fsck.1.html) check.

   The "fsck" check done by mktag is stricter than what [git-fsck(1)](../man1/git-fsck.1.html)
   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 [git-fsck(1)](../man1/git-fsck.1.html). This extra check can be turned off by
   setting the appropriate **fsck.**_<msg-id>_ variable:

       git -c fsck.extraHeaderEntry=ignore mktag <my-tag-with-headers

OPTIONS top

   --strict
       By default mktag turns on the equivalent of [git-fsck(1)](../man1/git-fsck.1.html)
       **--strict** mode. Use **--no-strict** to disable it.

TAG FORMAT top

   A tag signature file, to be fed to this command’s standard input,
   has a very simple fixed format: four lines of

       object <hash>
       type <typename>
       tag <tagname>
       tagger <tagger>

   followed by some _optional_ free-form message (some tags created by
   older Git may not have a **tagger** line). The message, when it
   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.

GIT top

   Part of the [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html) suite

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