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mstyura
mstyura

Reputation: 113

How to force Maven to use git-describe suffix for snapshot version during install

I have third party Java project which uses Maven to build.

The project has specified 1.0-SNAPSHOT as version in pom.xml file.

...  
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
...

I'd like to build project on private build server and install resulting jar into private maven repository.

Currently when project is installed or deployed via mvn install or mvn deploy the resulting artifact has suffixed with timestamp like this artifact-name-1.0-20200320.102713-1.jar. Such version is rather uninformative.

I'd like to have version suffix to include git describe instead of timestamp.

Is there a way to customize suffix to include more information like git commit id?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 609

Answers (1)

J Fabian Meier
J Fabian Meier

Reputation: 35805

The situation is a bit different to what you probably think.

Maven has just one build in mechanism that does not treat a version number "verbatim", and this mechanism is SNAPSHOT. SNAPSHOT versions are stored in Nexus/Artifactory as time-stamped, numbered versions so that Nexus/Artifactory can always give you last version when you ask for SNAPSHOT. There is no way to alter that mechanism.

On the other hand, you can build non-Snapshot versions that depend on properties.

You can e.g. define a version 1.0.0-${revision} and set the property revision through the command line.

Upvotes: 1

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