we manage the versioning problem by using one version for all projects. for a 
maven release we let maven auto increment the version number. merging back into 
the trunk we use svn merge, but sometimes there are conflicts with poms.

--- On Thu, 6/5/08, Bryan Loofbourrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> From: Bryan Loofbourrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Managing SCM branching of large, multiple-releasable-artifacts Maven 
> projects: ideas?
> To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, June 5, 2008, 3:55 PM
> I'm working with Maven on a large project == many, many
> Maven projects,
> and multiple, separately releasable artifacts.  Managing
> this is pretty
> reasonable, but the part I haven't figured out how to
> manage efficiently
> has to do with branching in my source control manager.
> 
>  
> 
> Let's take a typical branching scenario: I want to
> branch the entire
> source tree, work on the branch for a while, release the
> branch
> artifacts under some appropriate version, then merge the
> changes back to
> the main trunk. In the meantime, it's likely enough
> that I've done a
> release from the main trunk.
> 
>  
> 
> This is all fine, except when it comes to those version
> numbers in all
> of the myriad pom.xml files. That's a bit of a merge
> nightmare.
> 
>  
> 
> I can't be the only person running into this. How do
> you manage this
> sort of thing?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> -- Bryan


      

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