I've had very good experience with the goals on the release plugin.  It
pretty much does what is required for my branching needs.

Thanks,
Ed


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:38 AM, Nick Stolwijk <nick.stolw...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Or take a look at the Maven Release Plugin - branch goal [1] and it's
> documentation page [2].
>
> [1]
> http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/branch-mojo.html
> [2]
>
> http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/examples/branch.html
>
> Hth,
>
> Nick Stolwijk
>
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>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Manfred Moser <manf...@mosabuam.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The mvn versions plugin can do the update of the pom... but the branching
> > and stuff can be done with the scm plugin.
> >
> > If you want it completely automated you have to roll those together on
> > your own somehow.
> >
> > On Mon, January 14, 2013 9:06 am, John Kramer wrote:
> > > Are there any automated tools for that or should I write my own
> > > see/perl/something?
> > >
> > > John Kramer
> > > email: jkra...@mojiva.com
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 1/14/13 11:43 AM, "Manfred Moser" <manf...@mosabuam.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>A very common and well working approach is to have a branch qualifier
> in
> > >>the version and change the version of your project with the versions
> > >>plugin.
> > >>
> > >>So e.g. you would have
> > >>
> > >>1.1.2-brancha-SNASPHOT
> > >>1.1.2-branchb-SNASPHOT
> > >>
> > >>and to update them after you cut the branch in your scm you could use
> > >>
> > >>mvn versions:set -=DnewVersion= 1.1.2-brancha-SNAPSHOT
> > >>
> > >>manfred
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>On Mon, January 14, 2013 8:39 am, John Kramer wrote:
> > >>> Hi guys,
> > >>>
> > >>> Please forgive me if this seems like a newbie question.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I am reasonably seasoned with Maven, but have never really handle
> > >>> branching myself, and now I am put in the position where I am going
> to
> > >>> have to.  I.e.  What I am asking here is when I branch in git (or svn
> > >>> or
> > >>> whatever) how do I manage versions in poms (and any other versions I
> am
> > >>> not thinking about)?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Could someone point me at best practices for branches?
> > >>>
> > >>> Thanks!
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> John Kramer
> > >>> email: jkra...@mojiva.com<mailto:jkra...@mojiva.com>
> > >>> mobile: 314.435.2370
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> > >>>
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