Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-28 Thread Anders Lindgren
Hi Laird, I would guess that it is used by SCM's like CVS which takes an existing tag as base for a new branch. The explanation could be better as many of the other parameters describes SVN specific usage. /Anders On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 19:16 +0200, Laird Nelson wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at

Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-28 Thread Ron Wheeler
Or is could create a tag for the release. That would make sense, I think. Ron On 28/09/2012 3:34 AM, Anders Lindgren wrote: Hi Laird, I would guess that it is used by SCM's like CVS which takes an existing tag as base for a new branch. The explanation could be better as many of the other

Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-28 Thread Laird Nelson
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Anders Lindgren anders.lindg...@cinnober.com wrote: I would guess that it is used by SCM's like CVS which takes an existing tag as base for a new branch. The explanation could be better as many of the other parameters describes SVN specific usage. Thanks;

Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-28 Thread Mark Struberg
. strub - Original Message - From: Laird Nelson ljnel...@gmail.com To: Maven Users List users@maven.apache.org Cc: Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 4:47 PM Subject: Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do? On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Anders Lindgren anders.lindg

Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-28 Thread Robert Scholte
. strub - Original Message - From: Laird Nelson ljnel...@gmail.com To: Maven Users List users@maven.apache.org Cc: Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 4:47 PM Subject: Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do? On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Anders Lindgren anders.lindg

What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-27 Thread Laird Nelson
I can't figure out what the tag parameter is supposed to do for the maven-release-plugin branch goal. Could someone point me at some alternate source of documentation? The maven-release-plugin branch goal simply says ( http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/branch-mojo.html#tag):

Re: What does the tag parameter for release:branch do?

2012-09-27 Thread Laird Nelson
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Laird Nelson ljnel...@gmail.com wrote: I can't figure out what the tag parameter is supposed to do for the maven-release-plugin branch goal. I'm guessing that this is just a mistake; much of the branch goal seems to bear a striking similarity to the perform