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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt index 466a697519..006d759962 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-mktag.txt @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Reads a tag contents on standard input and creates a tag object. The +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 linkgit:git-hash-object[1] @@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ write a tag found in `my-tag`: The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the tag doesn't pass a linkgit:git-fsck[1] check. -The "fsck" check done mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1] +The "fsck" check done by mktag is stricter than what linkgit:git-fsck[1] 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 linkgit:git-fsck[1]. This extra check can be turned off by setting -the appropriate `fsck.<msg-id>` varible: +the appropriate `fsck.<msg-id>` variable: git -c fsck.extraHeaderEntry=ignore mktag <my-tag-with-headers @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ has a very simple fixed format: four lines of tagger <tagger> followed by some 'optional' free-form message (some tags created -by older Git may not have `tagger` line). The message, when it +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. |