Actually it was a typo in my mail.. our releases have the form of 1.0.0.Wxx (as in 1.0.0.W44)
Would this be ok ? Michael McCallum-3 wrote: > > I would highly recommend that you tag your projects X.Y and when you build > branches introduce the .Z > > maven treats the -SSS specially and makes it less e.g. > > X.Y.Z-A < X.Y.Z > > which obviously causes odd behaviour.. > > I use versions like 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 > > and patches being builds off branches being 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.2 etc etc > > On Wednesday 31 October 2007 02:33, Ionut Scutaru wrote: >> Hi guys, >> We have a multi-module project; we are using 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT as version >> for >> every module. We are trying to have a release at the end of every week, >> so >> our releases get the following form: 1.0.0-Wxx. In time we realized we >> need >> to branch the project before releasing it so we have some time to fix the >> critical issues that don't pass sanity testing. >> >> What we want to do is to create a branch on the release day and not the >> release itself (this one will be released 2-3 days after the branch is >> done). The version of the trunk needs to remain the same (e.g. >> 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT) while the version of the branch needs to be changed to >> the >> final version of the release (e.g. 1.0.0-Wxx). We tried to use mvn >> release:branch to release a branch, but we are seeing an odd behavior: >> the >> trunk's pom.xml files are modified as well - their version is changed to >> the same one as the branch. This is hapening although we specify >> -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false when we run the mvn release:branch >> process. >> >> Here's the entire command line we are using: >> mvn release:branch -DupdateBranchVersions=true >> -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false -DautoVersionSubmodules=true >> -DbranchName="Maven_Example_1.0.0" >> >> Is this a desired behavior or maybe we are using it incorrectly ? Can >> anybody recommend a "best practice" for branching (in conjunction with >> maven, of course) >> >> Thank you in advance. > > -- > Michael McCallum > Enterprise Engineer > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/usage-of-maven-release-plugin-%28releasing-a-branch%29-tf4718508s177.html#a13506204 Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
