Git provider fails to support 'release:perform' if not releasing from remote HEAD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: SCM-488 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/SCM-488 Project: Maven SCM Issue Type: Bug Components: maven-scm-provider-git Reporter: Petter Måhlén During the 'release:perform' phase using Git provider the following commands are issued: [INFO] Checking out the project to perform the release ... [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target && git clone git://git.shopzilla.com/site/client/sas-client /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target/checkout [INFO] Working directory: /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target/checkout && git pull git://git.shopzilla.com/site/client/sas-client tag root-5.18-uk [INFO] Working directory: /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target/checkout If the branch that is being released has conflicts (that cannot be automatically resolved) with the current HEAD at the remote server, the 'pull' with fail due to merge conflicts. A manual execution can look like: [pettermah...@petters-macbook-pro target (uk-release)]$ git clone git://git.shopzilla.com/site/client/sas-client /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target/checkout Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/pettermahlen/git/sas-client/target/checkout/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 72993, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18392/18392), done. remote: Total 72993 (delta 40752), reused 71454 (delta 39845) Receiving objects: 100% (72993/72993), 38.22 MiB | 2724 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (40752/40752), done. [pettermah...@petters-macbook-pro target (uk-release)]$ cd checkout/ [pettermah...@petters-macbook-pro checkout (master)]$ git pull git://git.shopzilla.com/site/client/sas-client tag root-5.18-uk Auto-merging client/pom.xml CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in client/pom.xml Auto-merging core/pom.xml CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in core/pom.xml Auto-merging model/pom.xml Pull does a fetch and a merge with what is currently checked out. A potential fix would be to rather than the 'git pull' command issue the following: git checkout <scm.tag> That's what I did to get past this situation, and I believe that should work as a general solution. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira