Sign Git tag with Maven release plugin?

Question

Is there a way to get the Maven release plugin to sign the Git tag that it creates at run time mvn release:prepare ?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this is not yet available.

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-486

But this does not mean that it may be impossible?

Answer 2

Starting with version 2.9.0, git supports the tag.forceSignAnnotated configuration parameter , which will force git to sign tags, since maven uses annotated tags at release. Just put

 [tag] forceSignAnnotated = true 

into your .gitconfig file.