You could try to add -Darguments="-DpomFile=.... as these are those used by release:perform AFAIK.
Regards Mirko -- Sent from my phone http://illegalstateexception.blogspot.com http://github.com/mfriedenhagen/ https://bitbucket.org/mfriedenhagen/ On Nov 2, 2011 7:46 PM, "Jim Cook" <nab...@visualxs.com> wrote: > I have found some addiitonal examples of people having this trouble, but no > real solutions yet. > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5558785/maven-release-plugin-git-and-the-poms-not-at-the-top > > http://maven-users.828.n2.nabble.com/release-perform-with-pom-xml-in-relative-path-of-SCM-repository-td6340959.html > > > I have tried specifying the name of my POM file using > -DpomFileName=Development/pom.xml, but no success. It doesn't even seem > that > release:perform is even acknowledging this setting. > > If I was using SVN as my scm, I could specify the /Development directory as > my checkout source. This would result in the pom.xml appearing in the root. > However, I use git which I don't think I can specify a subdirectory in my > git project for checkout. At least not using the SCM configuration in > Maven. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Release-plugin-when-POM-is-not-in-root-directory-tp4956364p4958980.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >