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mktag: minimally update the description.

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It lacked a description for the (historically) optional tagger header line.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano 2007-06-10 16:00:36 -07:00
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@ -19,18 +19,18 @@ The output is the new tag's <object> identifier.
Tag Format
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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 <sha1>
type <typename>
tag <tagname>
tagger <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.
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