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Dan Tran commented on SCM-836: ------------------------------ also mavenHome should default to the same started maven via {code} String mvnPath = System.getProperty("maven.home") + "/bin/mvn"; if (Os.isFamily("windows")) { String winMvnPath = mvnPath + ".bat"; if (!new File(winMvnPath).exists()) { winMvnPath = mvnPath + ".cmd"; } mvnPath = winMvnPath; } {code} > scm:bootstrap throws NPE > ------------------------ > > Key: SCM-836 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCM-836 > Project: Maven SCM > Issue Type: Bug > Components: maven-plugin > Affects Versions: 1.9.5 > Reporter: Dan Tran > > This issue shows up at 1.9.5 with the following stack trace > Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException > at > org.apache.maven.scm.plugin.BootstrapMojo.runGoals(BootstrapMojo.java:123) > at > org.apache.maven.scm.plugin.BootstrapMojo.execute(BootstrapMojo.java:94) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:134) > ... 21 more > Looking into debug log. Looks like mavenHome is set to null which should be > "" instead ( ie defaultValue="" does not work??? ) > [DEBUG] Configuring mojo > 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.9.5:bootstrap' with basic > configurator --> > [DEBUG] (f) basedir = > /data/jenkins-work/jobs/sit/jobs/sit-master/workspace/sit/aaa > [DEBUG] (s) checkoutDirectory = > /data/jenkins-work/jobs/sit/jobs/sit-master/workspace/sit/aaa/target/checkout > [DEBUG] (f) connectionType = connection > [DEBUG] (f) developerConnectionUrl = > scm:p4://IDP/shared/main/itests/restapi/aaa > [DEBUG] (f) goals = verify,-Dsky.sshUser=admin > [DEBUG] (f) profiles = aaa > [DEBUG] (f) pushChanges = true > [DEBUG] (f) settings = org.apache.maven.execution.SettingsAdapter@5b69d40d > [DEBUG] (f) skipCheckoutIfExists = false > [DEBUG] (f) useExport = false > [DEBUG] -- end configuration -- > work around is to pass in -DmavenHome="" -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)