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Kogler Hannes (HKO 4530) commented on MRELEASE-426: --------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir or Madam, Thank you for your message. I am out of the office at the moment and will be back on Thursday, 24th. September 2015. I will reply to your e-mail as soon as possible when I return. Please note that I will have limited access to my e-mail and your message will not be forwarded automatically. For urgent issues may I refer you to my colleagues Michael Weichselbaumer (MWE) and Ronald Angerer (RAN). Best regards Hannes Kogler Software Engineer Registered Office | NTS New Technology Systems GmbH Doernbacherstraße 126 | 4073 Wilhering | Austria FN155693k | ATU42651803 | Court of Jurisdiction Linz > There is no way to specify a branch/tag/revision when performing a release > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MRELEASE-426 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-426 > Project: Maven Release Plugin > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: perform > Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-8 > Environment: Maven2, CVSNT > Reporter: Eric B > > When using the release-plugin with CVS, there does not seem to be any way to > specify a version & versionType to base the release on. > The scm plugin allows to specify scmVersion, scmVersionType to pass this > information to the plugin, but when calling the release:perform goal, there > is no way to send this information to the scm plugin to checkout the files > from the appropriate branch/tag. > Accordingly, it seems that with CVS, the only way to build a release is from > the latest sources in the HEAD; not extremely practical. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)