Hi Everyone - I'm having a problem checking out the code from my multi module project - it's very frustrating and I've been working on it for a few days, so any help anyone can provide will be greatly appreciated.
Here's the background - I have a multi module project where the parent project is just used for meta data- in other words there is no code associated with the parent, it's just used to configure settings common to all child projects. It builds nothing and its packaging is set to POM. I'm trying to check out my code from CVS ------------------------------ 1. If I put the SCM element in the child pom's and remove it from the parent then run mvn scm:checkout from the parent directory, I get the error: Cannot run checkout command : Embedded error: Can't load the scm provider. You need to define a connectionUrl parameter I see no connectionUrl parameter within the SCM documentation. ------------------------------ 2. If I put the SCM element in the parent pom and remove it from the child pom's then run the mvn scm:checkout from the parent directory, I get the error: [ERROR] cvs server: cannot find module `reviewmanager' - ignored cvs server: cannot find module `reviewmanager' - ignored [ERROR] BUILD ERROR Here it's trying to checkout the artifactId of reviewmanager, which is the artifactId for the parent. However since the packaging is set to POM, I'd think Maven would skip the parent knowing that it's a project for meta data only My scm configuration for the top 2 tries is structured like this: <scm> <connection>scm:cvs:pserver:herestheuser:heresthepassw...@server.domain: /ABC/DEF:${artifactId}</connection> <developerConnection>scm:cvs:pserver:herestheuser:heresthepassw...@serve r.domain:/ABC/DEF:${artifactId}</developerConnection> <tag>HEAD</tag> </scm> ------------------------------ 3. If I keep the configuration in the parent and remove the artifactId from the connection / developerConnection and then run mvn scm:checkout then I get the following error: Cannot run checkout command Embedded error: Exception while executing SCM command Username isn't defined. The scm config for this last attempt is like this: <scm> <connection>scm:cvs:pserver:herestheuser:heresthepassw...@server.domain: /ABC/DEF</connection> <developerConnection>scm:cvs:pserver:herestheuser:heresthepassw...@serve r.domain:/ABC/DEF</developerConnection> <tag>HEAD</tag> </scm> ------------------------------ 4. If I take the same configuration (as used in the top 2 examples With the ${artifactId}) and put it in any of the child pom's and then run the mvn scm:checkout from the Child Directory, then it works fine. This seems like it would be a very common usecase so I'm surprised I can't find more information about it on the web. Maybe I'm doing a bad job searching.