From e1a60126b3d078ef3486caa20d257937a2738018 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2012 13:39:09 -0400
Subject: create signed release tags

---
 README.maintainer | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'README.maintainer')

diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer
index 31097185..ff97a5ba 100644
--- a/README.maintainer
+++ b/README.maintainer
@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ Release Reminders
    in the "files" subdirectory of the website on sourceforge.net.
 
  * Create a tag in the version control system, and make backups of the
-   actual releases.
+   actual releases.  With git, use git tag -s to create a signed tag:
+
+   git tag -s release-qpdf-$version HEAD -m'qpdf $version'
 
  * When releasing on source forge, external-libs distributions go in
    external-libs/yyyymmdd, and qpdf distributions go in qpdf/vvv
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