[MRELEASE-1157] release plugin ignores scmRollbackCommitComment

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.1
• Component/s: prepare, rollback
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mathias Legrand
• Created: 27/Sep/24 12:39
• Updated: 27/Sep/24 12:39

Description

Hello

I configured the release plugin as follows:

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1.1</version>
<configuration>
    <tagNameFormat>v@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
    <scmReleaseCommitComment>custom release commit comment</scmReleaseCommitComment>
    <scmDevelopmentCommitComment>custom dev commit comment</scmDevelopmentCommitComment>
    <scmRollbackCommitComment>custom rollback commit comment</scmRollbackCommitComment>
</configuration>

and after running mvn release:prepare, the release and development commit comments are correct:

> git log --oneline
f262713 (HEAD -> master) custom dev commit comment
2bbbad3 (tag: v1.73) custom release commit comment

but after running mvn release:rollback, the commit comment is [maven-release-plugin] rollback the release of v1.73 instead of custom rollback commit comment as specified in the pom.

I had a quick look at the source code and I understand if I am not mistaken that the configuration of the rollback mojo is overwritten by the properties in the release.properties file generated by the prepare mojo. Since prepare writes default value for scm.rollbackCommitComment in release.properties (i.e. scm.rollbackCommitComment=@{prefix} rollback the release of @{releaseLabel}), mojo parameter "scmRollbackCommitComment" is overwritten by the property's value.

I guess the issue is the same for scmBranchCommitComment.