Jgitflow plugin not creating git tags

Question

I have the following jgitflow plugin and use Jenkins to perform automated releases. Using the command mvn --batch-mode jgitflow:release-start jgitflow:release-finish. Everything is working however, I never see any tags in github. As per the docs unless notags is used all my releases should create tags. Any idea what is going wrong?

<plugin>
    <groupId>external.atlassian.jgitflow</groupId>
    <artifactId>jgitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-m4.3</version>
    <configuration>
        <flowInitContext>
            <masterBranchName>release</masterBranchName>
            <developBranchName>master</developBranchName>
            <releaseBranchPrefix>release-</releaseBranchPrefix>
            <versionTagPrefix>release-</versionTagPrefix>
        </flowInitContext>
        <noReleaseMerge>true</noReleaseMerge>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Using release-start and finish separately did not help either. See below:

mvn --batch-mode  jgitflow:release-start -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -DskipTests
git push --tags
Everything up-to-date

Answer 1

Found out eventually that the versionTagPrefix cannot be the same as the releaseBranchPrefix otherwise the tagging silently fails.

Answer 2

All changes are made local. You need to push them to remote:

• develop
• Tag (git push --tag)
• master