On 15 October 2010 10:47, Phillip Hellewell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I assume it is best practice to use a version like "x.y.z-SNAPSHOT" > for what is checked into the SCM, and only remove the "-SNAPSHOT" on > tags. > > I haven't played with the release plugin yet, but I think I read > somewhere that it provides this functionality. > > My question is, how can it modify a tag? Maybe some people don't have > a hook in place to prevent modifying tags, but we do and that is > definitely not going to change. > > I can think of two other ways it might be able to do it, but they both are > ugly: > 1. Change version in pom; check it in, tag it, change version back; check it > in. > 2. Create a temporary branch, change it there, tag temporary branch, > delete temporary branch.
3. create the tag from the working copy! which is how the release plugin works... by default unless you use <remoteTagging>true</remoteTagging> to work around the issue with svn and RA neon whereby you cannot create tags from a working copy over http/https in svn 1.5 or newer -Stephen > > So, does anyone know off the top of their head how the release plugin > handles this dilemma? > > Thanks, > Phillip > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
