@@ -29,15 +29,20 @@ OPTIONS
--signed-tags=(verbatim|warn-verbatim|warn-strip|strip|abort)::
Specify how to handle signed tags. Since any transformation
- after the export can change the tag names (which can also happen
- when excluding revisions) the signatures will not match.
+ after the export (or during the export, such as excluding
+ revisions) can change the hashes being signed, the signatures
+ may become invalid.
+
When asking to 'abort' (which is the default), this program will die
when encountering a signed tag. With 'strip', the tags will silently
be made unsigned, with 'warn-strip' they will be made unsigned but a
warning will be displayed, with 'verbatim', they will be silently
exported and with 'warn-verbatim' (or 'warn', a deprecated synonym),
-they will be exported, but you will see a warning.
+they will be exported, but you will see a warning. 'verbatim' and
+'warn-verbatim' should only be used if you know that no transformation
+affecting tags or any commit in their history will be performed by you
+or by fast-export or fast-import, or if you do not care that the
+resulting tag will have an invalid signature.
--tag-of-filtered-object=(abort|drop|rewrite)::
Specify how to handle tags whose tagged object is filtered out.