Hi, I am doing some experimenting with git-mktag, and was looking into the format it expects on input. Should this sequence of commands work? kalki:[~]% mkdir /tmp/gittest; cd /tmp/gittest kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git init Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/gittest/.git/ kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% echo "test" > test kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git add test kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git commit -m "commit-test" [master (root-commit) c0ae36f] commit-test 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 test kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git tag -m "tag-test" tag-test kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git cat-file -p e619 object c0ae36fee730f7034b1f76c1490fe6f46f7ecad5 type commit tag tag-test tagger Anand Kumria <akumria@xxxxxxx> Thu Oct 25 00:32:32 2012 +0100 tag-test kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git cat-file -p e619 | sed -e's/tag-test/tag-test2/' > tag-test2 kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% cat tag-test2 object c0ae36fee730f7034b1f76c1490fe6f46f7ecad5 type commit tag tag-test2 tagger Anand Kumria <akumria@xxxxxxx> Thu Oct 25 00:32:32 2012 +0100 tag-test2 kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git mktag < tag-test2 error: char112: missing tag timestamp fatal: invalid tag signature file kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git --version git version 1.7.9.5 The error message related to the timezone / timestamp being incorrect but I can't see what the problem is. Any advice appreciated. Please CC me as I may miss your reply. Thanks, Anand -- “Don’t be sad because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html