CODEWITHSUNDEEP
mavenmaven-release-plugin
dumitru
dumitru

Reputation: 2108

Maven release without tagging

The main idea of the question is: is that a way to specify that maven release should skip tagging when performing a release?

I have the following context: we have a TFS (Team Fundation Server) as a system that version our software. We also use a svn bridge that "talks" with the TFS and developers and CI tools use it. When performing a mvn release:clean release:prepare release:perform maven complains that it cannot find or create a tag (somehow translating the tag command of the svn into a similiar command in tfs crashes). Any suggestions are appreciated.

The error looks like this:

28-May-2013 15:51:04    [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.4.1:branch (default-cli) on project spring-hibernate-mysql: The scm url is invalid.
28-May-2013 15:51:04    [ERROR] - scm:svn:https://${TFS_SERVER}:${PORT}/${PATH_TO_APP}/tags/dbDiagnostic-1.0.0-RELEASE url isn't a valid svn URL.
28-May-2013 15:51:04    [ERROR] -> [Help 1]

I mention that the url is ok, because the step before this, in a CI plan is a "checkout sources" step with the same url.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9371

Answers (2)

Zilvinas
Zilvinas

Reputation: 5578

To your question:

You can disable remote tagging by setting the remoteTagging property to false as described in: http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html#remoteTagging

Note that in only works with SVN.

However, the reason for this error is most likely because maven failed to create the tag in the previous step, due to e.g. authentication failure or incorrect URL configuration ( see "tag base" attribute & etc ).

Upvotes: 1

Torsten
Torsten

Reputation: 6204

The maven release plugin depends on the svn tag as it checks out the tagged version during the release process. So the answer is: No, there is no way to release without a tag.

The svn URL above is not valid, you should consider fixing it by resolving the variable substitutions.

Upvotes: 1

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