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mktag: minimally update the description.
It lacked a description for the (historically) optional tagger header line. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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Documentation/git-mktag.txt

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Tag Format
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A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: three lines of
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A tag signature file has a very simple fixed format: four lines of
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object <sha1>
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type <typename>
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tag <tagname>
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tagger <tagger>
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followed by some 'optional' free-form signature that git itself
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doesn't care about, but that can be verified with gpg or similar.
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The size of the full object is artificially limited to 8kB. (Just
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because I'm a lazy bastard, and if you can't fit a signature in that
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size, you're doing something wrong)
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followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created
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by older git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when
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exists, is separated by a blank line from the header. The
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message part may contain a signature that git itself doesn't
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care about, but that can be verified with gpg.
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