mvn release branch causes NullPointerException in RewritePomsForBranchPhase translateScm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MRELEASE-684 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-684 Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin Issue Type: Bug Components: branch Affects Versions: 2.1 Reporter: Joakim Sandström * I have a main pom with multiple modules, the scm tag is only defined in the main pom # cd tags/app-1.0 # mvn release:branch -DbranchName=1.0.x -DupdateBranchVersions=true -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false -e -X {noformat} [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 43.785s [INFO] Finished at: Wed Jun 15 13:34:10 EEST 2011 [INFO] Final Memory: 12M/309M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1:branch (default-cli) on project aktia-netbank: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1:branch failed. NullPointerException -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1:branch (default-cli) on project aktia-netbank: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1:branch failed. at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:225) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352) Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.PluginExecutionException: Execution default-cli of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.1:branch failed. at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:110) at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209) ... 19 more Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.RewritePomsForBranchPhase.translateScm(RewritePomsForBranchPhase.java:123) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.RewritePomsForBranchPhase.transformScm(RewritePomsForBranchPhase.java:62) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformDocument(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:312) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transformProject(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:215) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.transform(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:121) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.AbstractRewritePomsPhase.execute(AbstractRewritePomsPhase.java:104) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.branch(DefaultReleaseManager.java:389) at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.branch(DefaultReleaseManager.java:360) at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.BranchReleaseMojo.execute(BranchReleaseMojo.java:235) at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) ... 20 more [ERROR] [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/PluginExecutionException {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira