Does the Maven Release Plugin perform lightweight or annotated tags in Git? (Also, does it support annotated tags if it is defaulting to lightweight tags?)
For instance, I can tag a project by hand using either:
git tag v1.0.0 # lightweight
or, alternately,
git tag -a v1.0.0 # annotated
These are very different types of tags. The first is a lightweight Git tag, and the second is an annotated Git tag.
(Note: I know that the release:prepare goal performs commits with POM changes, which in effect simulates an annotated tag because it ties the tag to a new, specific commit, but my question is whether an annotated tag is the result, anyway.)
Background: Maven 3.3.9 and Git 2.7.4 on a Mavenized Java project. Not easy to find this answer on Google or in SO.
UPDATE: Tags by the Maven Release Plugin are always annotated. There is no support for lightweight tags. See the answer below and my comments to corroborate it.
While I didn't find documentation on this question (maybe it exists out there), I did a trial run. Create a local GIT repository with a simple POM and do a maven release:prepare. When I run git show $MYTAG on the resulting tag, git output contains "Tagger" data which suggests it is an annotated tag.
https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging
https://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html