GIT-VERIFY-TAG(1)

💅 NAME 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to GIT-VERIFY-TAG(1) — the Git manual page for git-verify-tag, aka the tag-signature check. The official NAME energy is: Check the GPG signature of tags. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

git verify-tag [-v | --verbose] [--format=<format>] [--raw] <tag>...

That --format=<format> piece is right there in the synopsis, so keep it exactly as written when you copy the line. No renaming, no merging, no cap. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This one validates the gpg signature created by git tag in the tag objects listed on the command line. You hand it <tag>... — one or more tags — and it does the signature-validation thing. iconic. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --raw — prints the raw gpg status output to standard error instead of the normal human-readable output. 👀
• -v, --verbose — prints the contents of the tag object before validating it. 💖

👑 GIT 👑

Part of the git(1) suite. She’s literally in the Git family, periodt. 🫶

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— Git 2.56.0 · 2026-09-27 🌈💖