Greetings, Can the maven release plugin build a tag from a branch during a release:prepare? Ultimately, I want to do a release:peform from a tag based off a branch where maven never looks at or touches trunk.
I've tried a number of different command line options, read some docs at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-releasing.html and other places and am not seeing how to do this. Before: * I create a branch * Do development work on the branch, fixing bugs, etc. * Now it's time to release the bug fixes, but we can't merge the changes to trunk. Now: * I check out the branch to a new working location * cd to that working location * mvn -Dtag=myTagName release:prepare When it manipulates the poms, it sets them correctly and commits them to the branch. But then I can't get it to do the svn copy from any place other than trunk, even though I'm operating on branch. I've tried -DconnectionUrl but that seems to be ignored in this context. Afterward, when I do a release:perform, the poms are out of sync, so it fails since the tag it checks out was tagged from trunk. Also, it's using code that doesn't have the bug fixes that are in the branch, which is bad. Is there a configuration option I'm missing? I can't find it anywhere. Thanks for any help. - Steven --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
