Sign Git tag with Maven release plugin?

Question

Is there a way to get the Maven release plugin to sign the Git tag it creates during a mvn release:prepare execution?

Answer 1

Staring from version 2.9.0 git supports tag.forceSignAnnotated config option, which will force git to sign tags as maven uses annotated tags when releasing. Just put

[tag]
    forceSignAnnotated = true

into your .gitconfig file.

Answer 2

Unfortunately this seemed to be currently not available.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCM-486

But this does not mean it might not be possible somehow?