[MRELEASE-997] Unable to release:perform on windows if a file name contains spaces on windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.3
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-M1
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez
• Created: 09/Feb/18 22:19
• Updated: 14/Feb/18 19:13
• Resolved: 14/Feb/18 19:13

Description

Using the 2.5.3 version of the release plugin, on a Windows 10 machine, to generate the vote artifacts for the upcoming JSPWiki 2.10.3, I stumbled upon the following error message while doing an mvn release:perform:

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.5.3:prepare (default-cli) on project jspwiki-builder: An error occurred during the status check process: Exception while executing SCM command.: Error while executing command. Error inside systemOut parser: Illegal character in path at index 0: "jspwiki-war/src/main/styles/haddock/fontjspwiki/FontJspwiki/Read%20Me.txt"

which resulted on being unable to prepare the release.

Seems that this is caused by the underlying maven-scm-* artifacts' versions, which seem to have caused this issue on other places too (f.ex.: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-24686). This behaviour appears to be caused by https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SCM-772, but that's just an impression.

The fix would be to simply bump scmVersion property from 1.9.4 to 1.9.5 on https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/maven/release/trunk/pom.xml?view=markup#l88

Steps to reproduce:

mvn release:prepare -DdryRun -DautoVersionSubmodules=true on https://github.com/apache/jspwiki/commit/0f38188a1c49fbefa957e7486a0ead943b8642d8

Workaround: declare 1.9.5 versions of maven-scm-* artifacts as maven-release-plugin dependencies (as done on the aforementioned Jenkins issue and at https://github.com/apache/jspwiki/commit/339d66c349ee0234c6e903b81a6af8d9eae842b5):

  <plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.5.3</version>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-scm-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.5</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-scm-providers-standard</artifactId>
        <version>1.9.5</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </plugin>

Issue Links

• is superceded by: MRELEASE-993 Use shallow checkout per default (git scm)