[MRELEASE-838] Creating a branch from a tag does not work

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.1
• Component/s: branch
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Damien Kamerman
• Created: 20/May/13 11:03
• Updated: 31/Jan/15 14:13
• Resolved: 20/May/13 14:05

Description

I'm trying to use the following command to create a branch from an SVN tag:

mvn release:branch -DupdateBranchVersions=true -DupdateVersionsToSnapshot=false -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false -DbranchName=MyBranch

However, it makes commits to the tag which it shouldn't and also updates the version and dependencies in the branch pom to the latest SNAPSHOT.

I also tried:

mvn release:branch -DupdateBranchVersions=true -DupdateVersionsToSnapshot=false -DupdateDependencies=false -DupdateWorkingCopyVersions=false -DsuppressCommitBeforeBranch=true -DbranchName=MyBranch

And this fails with:

[ERROR] Error resolving version for plugin 'maven-release-plugin:2.4.1' from the repositories [local (/root/.m2/repository), central (http://nexus.forge.avaya.com/content/groups/public), ace_special (http://nexus.forge.avaya.com/content/repositories/ace_special)]: Plugin not found in any plugin repository -> [Help 1]

I think this is a pretty major bug.