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Anders Hammar edited comment on MRELEASE-872 at 4/9/14 7:38 AM: ---------------------------------------------------------------- The problem is that when we don't have an existing project, a Maven project stub ('standalone-pom') is used for which no basedir is specified. Therefore we get a NPE when the code expects a basedir to be defined. See CheckoutProjectFromScm.performCheckout(). was (Author: afloom): The problem is that when we don't have an existing project, a Maven project stub ('standalone-pom') is used for which no basedir is specified. Therefor we get a NPE when the code expects a basedir to be defined. See CheckoutProjectFromScm.performCheckout(). > NPE in release:perform when specifying svn tag as param > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MRELEASE-872 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-872 > Project: Maven Release Plugin > Issue Type: Bug > Components: perform > Affects Versions: 2.5 > Environment: Windows 7, Maven 3.0.4, IBM JDK 1.6.0 > Reporter: Anders Hammar > > When executing release:perform and specifying the Svn tag via the > 'connectionUrl' parameter, the execution fails with a NullPointerException. > This happens for an execution without an existing Maven project (e.g. in an > empty directory). > {quote} > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform (default-cli) on > project standalone-pom: Execution default-cli of goal > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform failed. > NullPointerException -> [Help 1] > org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute > goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform (default-cli) > on project standalone-pom: Execution default-cli > of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform 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:320) > 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:60) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:37) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:611) > 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:2.5:perform > 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.util.ReleaseUtil.getCommonBasedir(ReleaseUtil.java:210) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.util.ReleaseUtil.getCommonBasedir(ReleaseUtil.java:200) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.CheckoutProjectFromScm.performCheckout(CheckoutProjectFromScm.java:230) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.CheckoutProjectFromScm.execute(CheckoutProjectFromScm.java:131) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.perform(DefaultReleaseManager.java:429) > at > org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.perform(DefaultReleaseManager.java:381) > at > org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PerformReleaseMojo.execute(PerformReleaseMojo.java:177) > at > org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101) > ... 20 more > {quote} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.6#6162)