Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Duplicate
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2.0-beta-7
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Description
We're about to start using the maven-release-plugin on a large project for both branching and releasing. We found a few things that would be nice to pass in as arguments on the command line so that the process doesn't require user interaction. I looked to see if this was already possible and came up blank.
Scenario 1: release:branch needs two pieces of information: (a) the branch name and (b) the "new working copy version". The former can be specified using -DbranchName but the latter isn't documented. Is there a way to specify the new working copy version on the command line? Ideally I'd be able to do something like this:
$ mvn release:branch -DbranchName=release-3.1 -DdevelopmentVersion= 3.2-SNAPSHOT |
Scenario 2: release:prepare needs three pieces of information: (a) the release version, (b) the release scm tag, and (c) the new development version. According to the documentation, only the tag can be specified on the command line using -Dtag=wombat. What about the others?
$ mvn release:prepare -DreleaseVersion=3.1 -Dtag=release-3.1.0-DdevelopmentVersion=3.1.1-SNAPSHOT |
Note we're also using -DautoVersionSubmodules=true, which is what gets us pretty far in being able to fire these things off in a single shot without user interaction.
I've been meaning to code up a fix so that I can submit it with this issue, but haven't had the time yet. I hope to find the time soon, but in the mean time would like some feedback on the idea (e.g. is there a way to do it already?).
Attachments
Issue Links
- duplicates
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MRELEASE-173 Allow command line specification of versions
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- Closed
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