This was a known bug, fixed in maven-release-plugin 2.1. Are you using that release?
On 01/11/2010, at 12:26 PM, Marshall Schor wrote: > I have a pom which has a property which has as a value "2.3.1-SNAPSHOT". > > The property is used to factor into one spot the version level for > dependencies, > where the dependencies are for other modules in a multi-module build (most of > which have the same > version level). > > When I do mvn release:prepare -DdryRun on a POM which includes this as a > module, > the release:prepare successfully updates the property, first, to "2.3.1" for > the > "tag", and then, for the next development version, to "2.3.2-SNAPSHOT". I > think > it figures out that this property is being used as a dependency version value, > and matches it to version levels of things in the "Reactor", to figure out it > needs updating. > > So far everything seems to be correct. > > But, if I do exactly the same thing, but leave off the "-DdryRun", it updates > the property, first (as before), to "2.3.1" for the tag, but then does *not* > update it for the next development version. > > Any idea why? Is this a (known) bug? I can, of course, work around this by > manually updating this property to the right level and committing that change > to > the trunk. > > -Marshall Schor > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Brett Porter [email protected] http://brettporter.wordpress.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
