Thanks for the reply. When I started to use the plugin I was prefixing the URLs with "scm:svn", but then I still had a problem so thought about exploring and that is why I asked about setting the scm provider in a different manner. I have again used these prefixes and I still get a problem. Maven gave me the follow stacktrace below. I am using 2.0-beta-3 of the plugin.
During my reading of the site I noticed that both the scm and the release plugin are similar. Is it right to think that the maven-scm plugin is planned to allow developers to aquire a project without a pom.xml and then to complete the every day version control tasks? With this in mind is it best to view the maven-release plugin as a component that should be used to release code for a repository instead of completing a checkout/checkin, copy etc manually? I just want to know the thoughts behind each plugin. ----- Maven output ----- [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ---------------------------------------------------- --- [INFO] An error is occurred in the status process. Embedded error: Can't load the scm provider. The scm url is invalid. ----- stack trace ------ Caused by: org.apache.maven.scm.ScmException: Can't load the scm provider. at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.helpers.ScmHelper.getScmRepository(S cmHelper.java:104) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.helpers.ScmHelper.getStatus(ScmHelpe r.java:169) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.checkForLocalModi fications(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:510) ... 19 more Caused by: org.apache.maven.scm.repository.ScmRepositoryException: The scm url i s invalid. at org.apache.maven.scm.provider.svn.SvnScmProvider.makeProviderScmRepos itory(SvnScmProvider.java:84) at org.apache.maven.scm.manager.plexus.DefaultScmManager.makeScmReposito ry(DefaultScmManager.java:126) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.helpers.ScmHelper.getScmRepository(S cmHelper.java:82) On 07/11/05, Brett Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your SCM URL should start: > > scm:svn:file://... > > Maven has no knowledge of the SVN protocols, just the scm type given > in the second argument above. > > - Brett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]