Re: Is git mktag supposed to accept git cat-file input?

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Anand Kumria <akumria@acm.org> 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@acm.org> 1351121552 +0100
>
>    tag-test
>
> and is the format expected by mktag.
>
> -Brandon
>