exclude
Controls whether checksum files for signature (.asc) files are excluded when publishing to Maven Central.
Gradle generates .asc.md5, .asc.sha1, .asc.sha256 and .asc.sha512 files for every signature, but these are not needed by Maven Central. See gradle/gradle#20232.
This is enabled by default and can also be controlled through the mavenCentralExcludeSignatureChecksums Gradle property.
Parameters
exclude
whether to exclude signature checksum files from the deployment