Ahh, unix time. Of course. Thanks Brandon. On 25 October 2012 01:18, Brandon Casey <drafnel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > -- “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