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@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ Building metafacture-core from source is easy. All you need is git and JDK 11:
     ```bash
     $ ./gradlew publishToMavenLocal
     ```
+    In case you are building locally from a tag and you have no signing credentials you can use a workaround: just make sure to have an unclean status e.g. by doing `touch .temp` before doing `./gradlew publishToMavenLocal`. Otherwise it will try to build a release and break due to missing signing.
 
 3. Create a distribution if you need one. The resulting distribution can be found in `metafacture-core/metafacture-runner/build/distributions/`:
     ```bash