mvn release with pom.xml not in root of git repo

Hi,

This question has been asked quite a couple of times already, but I never found a real solution nor do I know if this should really be supported:
Is it possible to do a release with the maven-release-plugin when the parent pom.xml is not in the root of the git repo?
This is no problem with Subversion, but with git I have never managed to get this working.

so layout is like this:

repo-dir
|_.git
|_subdir/pom.xml
|_subdir/subsubdir/pom.xml

has anyone done this? how?

Domi