Maven Release Plugin

This page provides a space for users to contribute examples, errata, tips and other useful information about the Maven Release Plugin. Everybody is invited to share his/her thoughts about the plugin to help the community to improve it.

Note: Please do not use this page to report bugs or feature requests. Instead, please fill in an issue in the issue tracking system listed in the official plugin documentation.

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- The Maven Team

Examples

Doing this and that:

FAQ

When running release:perform, I get an error message "Cannot execute mojo: resources. It requires a project with an existing pom.xml, but the build is not using one"

One cause of this is an incorrectly-specified <scm> setting for the project being released. For example, you may have accidentally specified the SVN "root" for the project and not the /trunk or active branch. If this is the case, take a look at the target/checkout directory when you receive this message and you will find that trunk/tags/branches has been checked out for the build, instead of the release tag.

To correct this, edit your <scm> in pom.xml to point to the pre-tagged branch you are working on (usually trunk) i.e.

Note the presence of trunk in each URL.

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