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-- signed-tags=(verbatim|warn-verbatim|warn-strip|strip|abort)::
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Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation
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- after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen
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- when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match.
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+ after the export (or during the export, such as excluding
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+ revisions) can change the hashes being signed, the signatures
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+ may become invalid.
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When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
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when encountering a signed tag. With 'strip' , the tags will silently
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be made unsigned, with 'warn-strip' they will be made unsigned but a
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warning will be displayed, with 'verbatim' , they will be silently
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exported and with 'warn-verbatim' (or 'warn' , a deprecated synonym),
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- they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
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+ they will be exported, but you will see a warning. 'verbatim' and
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+ 'warn-verbatim' should only be used if you know that no transformation
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+ affecting tags or any commit in their history will be performed by you
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+ or by fast-export or fast-import, or if you do not care that the
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+ resulting tag will have an invalid signature.
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-- tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
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Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.
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