This is with maven 2.0.9 on Solaris 10 with Java 1.6.0_11 I have a project laid out thusly:
myproject/pom.xml myproject/myproject-pom/pom.xml myproject/myproject-api/pom.xml myproject/myproject-common/pom.xml myproject/myproject-console/pom.xml The top-level pom is a minimal parent pom whose only module is myproject/myproject-pom. myproject/myproject-pom/pom.xml exists because Eclipse doesn't like nested projects. So this pom has things that would typically need to be changed. All of the other myproject/myproject-*/pom.xml are modules of myproject/myproject-pom/pom.xml. When I execute 'mvn release:prepare' things go well until it begins invoking subversion. Here is the relevant bit of output from the process: (sorry for the long lines) [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject && svn --non-interactive commit --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-1461319678.commit --targets /var/tmp/maven-scm-7441525038114668907-targets [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom && svn --non-interactive commit --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-1292675052.commit --targets /var/tmp/maven-scm-6618196211309587095-targets [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-api && svn --non-interactive commit --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-1794995489.commit --targets /var/tmp/maven-scm-2050429634740604341-targets [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-api [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-common && svn --non-interactive commit --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-786958246.commit --targets /var/tmp/maven-scm-6369822062244441127-targets [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-common [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-console && svn --non-interactive commit --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-637551884.commit --targets /var/tmp/maven-scm-3757207476498104603-targets [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject/myproject-pom/../myproject-console [INFO] Tagging release with the label myproject-1.0... [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject && svn --non-interactive copy --file /var/tmp/maven-scm-1862162340.commit . http://my-svn-server:8888/svn/myrepo/myprojects/tags/myproject-1.0 [INFO] Working directory: /export/home/ci/tmp/myproject [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Unable to tag SCM Provider message: The svn tag command failed. Command output: svn: Commit failed (details follow): svn: File '/svn/myrepo/myprojects/tags/myproject-1.0/myproject-common/pom.xml' already exists After investigating a while and trying to reproduce the process manually, I discovered that the error message is somewhat misleading. If I do an 'svn update' prior to the 'svn copy' then the process completes successfully. I put a shell script named 'svn' in my path in front of /usr/local/bin and had that script do an 'svn update' when it sees an 'svn copy' request. Invoking 'mvn release:prepare' with that in place will succeed. Has anybody else seen this kind of behavior? Is there a better solution than my hack of a workaround: $ cat ~/bin/svn #!/bin/bash echo "$@" > ~/svn.log if [ "$1" = "--non-interactive" -a "$2" = "copy" -a "$3" = "--file" ] then /usr/local/bin/svn update fi exec /usr/local/bin/svn "$@" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org