I was speaking with Olivier on IRC earlier, so far I've managed to work around the issue by adding a <dependency/> on the latest maven-scm-providers-gitexe inside my maven-release-plugin <plugin/> block and that seems to have resolved the issue.
Simply dropping back to 2.3.2 of the release plugin didn't help as that still picked up the older maven-scm version which was looking for a git status output starting with #. Mark On 9 Dec 2013, at 22:00, Stephen Connolly wrote: > There is a know issue with Git and release plugin 2.4.2 and something to do > with SCM version bundled in Maven 3.1.1? (or maybe 3.1.x) Olivier may know > more.
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