Github user khmarbaise commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/60#issuecomment-167975254 So we are talking about something completely different. I have cloned the given repository `https://github.com/kilokahn/maven-testers/` and i can't find a definition for `global.version` ? If you like to use something like above you have to use predefined placeholders ([revision, changelist, sha1](http://maven.apache.org/docs/3.2.1/release-notes.html#Continuous_delivery_friendly_versions_MNG-5576)) so you can call maven like this: mvn -Drevision=1.0-SNAPSHOT clean package which is already available since Maven 3.2.1...
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