RE: SCM not adding file to CVS before commit when doing a release

I ran into this same problem (see my posting on 1/9/08). It only occurs when generateReleasePoms is true. If you look at the debug output, it does attempt to do a "cvs add" on release-pom.xml...however for some reason the add doesn't happen. It works okay when generateReleasePoms is false.

Release plug-in fails to add/remove release-pom.xml in CVS

I'm trying to use the release plug-in on a very simple multi-module project but the plug-in seems to be having problems adding/removing the release-pom.xml file for parent to CVS. My project structure looks like this (minus the source files)... sample/ pom.xml sample-shared/