# mktag GIT-MKTAG(1) Git Manual GIT-MKTAG(1)

NAME git-mktag - Creates a tag object

SYNOPSIS git mktag

DESCRIPTION Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object that can also be used to sign other objects.

   The output is the new tag’s <object> identifier.

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

       object <sha1>
       type <typename>
       tag <tagname>
       tagger <tagger>

   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.

GIT Part of the git(1) suite

Git 2.18.2 01/03/2020 GIT-MKTAG(1)