Let providers indicate whether a commit is required before a tag
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Key: SCM-494
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-494
Project: Maven SCM
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: maven-scm-api
Reporter: Mike Dillon
Priority: Minor
Attachments: requiresCommitBeforeTag.diff
As part of looking into creating a patch for MRELEASE-477, I realized that SCM
providers would need to indicate whether they are able to create a "tag"
directly from a modified working copy. Subversion can do this, but not all
providers can. I'm providing a patch that adds a requiresCommitBeforeTag()
method to ScmProvider, similar to the requiresEditMode() method. It looks like
there is a request for a general "capabilities" API in SCM-23; this would fit
into such an API if it existed, but that issue doesn't have a patch attached :)
I haven't provided a test of this since it's only a flag that is not used
inside maven-scm (I'm planning to provide a patch for maven-release to use it
there). I could see it being used in scm:tag to allow a generic check for a
dirty working copy in a local-to-remote tag operation, but it seems like these
things are better handled by the provider themselves.
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