maven-release-plugin and maven 3.0.3

Question

I'm using the maven release plugin to perform the following with maven-3.0.3

mvn release:prepare

Everything seems to be going fine except that when it creates the tag in SVN, it copies the previous version from the tags folder with the correct label. Any ideas why?

If I switch back to maven-2.2.1, the tagging is correct and the contents of the tagging are the expected ones.

With Maven 2.2.1:

[INFO] Tagging release with the label crcib-6.8.5...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "svn --non-interactive copy --file c:\DOCUME~1\markand\LOCALS~1\Temp\maven-scm-1593649573.commit . <url>/svn/repos/crcib/tags/crcib-6.8.5"

With Maven 3.0.3:

[INFO] Tagging release with the label crcib-6.8.5...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "svn --non-interactive copy --file c:\DOCUME~1\markand\LOCALS~1\Temp\maven-scm-2047728233.commit --revision 6331 <url>/svn/repos/crcib/tags/crcib-6.8.2 <url>/svn/repos/crcib/tags/crcib-6.8.5"

Any ideas why? Also, it seems that when using Maven 2, several artifacts are being downloaded before the tagging commences. This is not the case with Maven 3.

Answer 1

Without your pom.xml, it is difficult to know what's the problem.

The most obvious misconfiguration is probably ins scm, as Wemu said; :

<scm>
    <!-- Base URL of repository (trunk/tags/branches independant)-->
    <url>scm:svn:http://svn.my.company.com/repository</url>

    <!-- Current working url (NOT TAG ONE) -->
    <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.my.company.com/repository/trunk/my-project</connection>
    <!-- Current working url -->
    <developerConnection>scm:svn:http://svn.my.company.com/repository/trunk/my-project</developerConnection>
</scm>

This is the version and how I use this plugin :

 <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>2.2.2</version>
      <configuration>
            <tagBase>svn.my.company.com/repository/tags</tagBase>
      </configuration>
</plugin>

When you'll use the maven release plugin, this will modify your scm configuration to point to tags. If it's really a maven 3 issue, i never noticed it.

Could you, please, post you pom.xml (and settings.xml) for further analysis ?