yes it is a bug http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-6
-D On 4/5/06, Todd Nine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having some trouble with the prepare target of the release plug in. I > have a pom artifact type, and I have several child modules like the > example > below. I'm using the eclipse flat directory structure > > <modules> > <module>../module1</module> > <module>../module2</module> > </modules> > > > when I perform "mvn release:prepare" I'm prompted for the version of the > parent pom as well as all child poms. However when maven should tag the > source, it never tags the child poms and as a result, the > release.propertiesall have HEAD as the tag to check out for a build. > It does correctly update > all the poms and check in the new development version, but doesn't tag the > source. Is this a bug? > > Todd > >