Hello David, Maybe you can find answers to at least some of questions in following articles:
- http://www.vineetmanohar.com/2009/10/23/how-to-automate-project-versioning-and-release-with-maven/ - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2008/08/31/using-maven-release-plugin Regards, Stevo. On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 11:20 PM, David Jencks <david_jen...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I find that the release plugin docs don't give me an adequate idea of what > to expect to happen in svn when I run > > release:prepare > release:rollback > release:perform > release:branch > > After some experimentation I think I know what happens for some of these: > > release:prepare makes 3 svn commits > - update current project to release version > - create tag (from what? I have no idea) > - update current project to next development version > > release:rollback, in an indeterminate number of commits, undoes anything > committed since release:prepare was run for the first time in this release > attempt. In particular if you tried to commit build fixes that only became > evident during release:prepare, they will get undone. > > release:perform makes no svn changes > > release:branch I have no idea about. > > I suspect it would take about 15 minutes for one of the authors to update > the docs with some accurate info along these lines and I doubt I would be > the only one appreciating the effort. > > thanks > david jencks > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
