On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Anand Kumria <akumria@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Yes, with a slight tweak... > kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git tag -m "tag-test" tag-test > kalki:[/tmp/gittest]% git cat-file -p e619 '-p' means pretty-print, i.e. produce a human-readable format. mktag supports the raw format. So you should invoke it like this: $ git cat-file tag e619 which should produce something like: object c0ae36fee730f7034b1f76c1490fe6f46f7ecad5 type commit tag tag-test tagger Anand Kumria <akumria@xxxxxxx> 1351121552 +0100 tag-test and is the format expected by mktag. -Brandon -- 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