[MRELEASE-523] ReleaseUtil throws "java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: prepare
• Environment: Windows XP, Maven 2.2.1
• Assignee: Brett Porter
• Reporter: Ulrich Hofstötter
• Created: 16/Feb/10 03:38
• Updated: 29/Sep/10 09:31
• Resolved: 29/Sep/10 09:31

Description

Hello,

i have an issue using the maven release plugin 2.0, previous versions did not have this issue.

In a multimodule project, release:prepare exits with the attached stack trace.

After a litte debugging, i found out that in ReleaseUtil, line 188
String dir = FileUtils.normalize( p.getBasedir().getPath().replace( '
', '/' ) );
returns "c:\..." for the parent module, but "C:\..." for the first submodule.

So in line 202
basedir = StringUtils.getCommonPrefix( new String[]

{dir, basedir}

);
results in an empty String, which leads to the exception in line 206.

I will try to compose a simple example as soon as possible.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MRELEASE-536 CommonBasedir Calculation fails on windows