Sorry Emmanuel,
My post *should* have read :
1) If the SCM user/password has NOT been been explicitly configured in
your POM or Settings, how does the maven-release-plugin discover the
username/password of the current user ...
With regards to determining the revision that is tagged, I need the
I don't know how JavaSVN store username/password but I think it use the
subversion registry too, so if you're already authenticated on the svn server
from this computer, you won't need username/password.
If you want to set explicitly the username/password, you can set them in the
release plugin