mktag doc: update to explain why to use this
Change the mktag documentation to compare itself to the similar "hash-object -t tag" command. Before this someone reading the documentation wouldn't have much of an idea what the difference was. Let's allude to our own validation logic, and cross-link the "mktag" and "hash-object" documentation to aid discover-ability. A follow-up change to migrate "mktag" to use "fsck" validation will make the part about validation logic clearer. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason committed
Jan 5, 2021 at 20:42 UTC
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Documentation/git-mktag.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-mktag.txt
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-mktag(1)
NAME
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-git-mktag - Creates a tag object
+git-mktag - Creates a tag object with extra validation
SYNOPSIS
@@ -13,10 +13,19 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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-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.
+Reads a tag 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]
+invoked with `-t tag -w --stdin`. I.e. both of these will create and
+write a tag found in `my-tag`:
+
+ git mktag <my-tag
+ git hash-object -t tag -w --stdin <my-tag
+
+The difference is that mktag will die before writing the tag if the
+tag doesn't pass a sanity check.
Tag Format
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