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John Lin commented on MRELEASE-1008: ------------------------------------ Maven Release Plugin use JDOM to write XML documents: [https://github.com/apache/maven-release/blob/master/maven-release-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/shared/release/transform/jdom/JDomModelETL.java#L211-L231] Since JDOM doesn't support modifying the XML document without changing the original XML format, this issue seems to be unsolvable. There may be some other opensource projects mentioned [here|https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2499011/modify-xml-node-but-keep-the-xml-file-format-intact] to modify XML document while keeping the original XML format, but they all look like dead projects and are not being maintained. > Changed formatting of pom file for multiline attributes during version bump > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MRELEASE-1008 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-1008 > Project: Maven Release Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Roman Ivanov > Priority: Major > > during release, plugin create commit for version bump. > BUT in addition to this it change formatting of some tags - > https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/commit/29a635421d9292673bbaaf0c0693d2191dfb5f18 > Plugin changes multiline attributes formatting to single-line. > In Checkstyle project we control length of lines in files to ease code review > in web. This allow us to avoid vertical scrolls, ...... . > Such unexpected change triggered build problem right after release and make > it impossible to keep user-defined formatting . > Also reported at: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49085502/maven-release-plugin-changes-pom-formatting -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)