On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 12:32:45PM +0000, Daniel Devlin wrote: > tag_contents = > "object f849f9e28c7f36a826d4b451efb16516c0c3acc2\ntype #{type}\ntag # > {tagname}\ntagger #{username} <#{email}> #{Time.new.to_i} +0000\n\n#{message}" > [...] > executecommand = "printf \"#{tag_contents}\" | git mktag" > [...] > I have tried to run it on a vm with git 2.0.4 but keep > getting char 7 could not verify object error message. Do you have object f849f9e28c... in the repository where you are running mktag? If so, is it a commit object, as you are putting in the type field? What does: git cat-file -t f849f9e28c7f36a826d4b451efb16516c0c3acc2 show? -Peff -- 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