Put current git branch to project version

Question

I want to put the current git branch into the version field in pom xml. I found some post in the internet suggesting to do something like:

<version>${scm.version}</version>

but this seems not to work with git. Are there any other solutions?

Answer 1

Yes, use the git commit id plugin for maven

It's pretty straightforward. You can use it to get the git branch with

${git.branch}

So in your case it would go:

<version>${git.branch}</version>