[SCM-816] Can't bootstrap or checkout project with child module

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.5
• Component/s: maven-plugin

Environment

Apache Maven 3.2.5 (NON-CANONICAL_2015-04-01T06:42:27_mockbuild; 2015-04-01T08:42:27+02:00)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_65, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.65-3.b17.fc22.x86_64/jre
Default locale: fr_FR, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.2.6-200.fc22.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: franck bonin
• Created: 26/Jan/16 16:42
• Updated: 31/May/16 21:18
• Resolved: 31/May/16 21:18

Description

I don't know if it's a maven or a scm plugin issue.
But, when we try to bootstrap or checkout a project using its single pom description, Maven fail complaining about missing child modules. Which is annoying since retrieving child modules is just why we try to boostrap the project...
steps to reproduce :
1- lets say we get a pom file from nexus :
mvn dependency:copy -Dartifact=my.organisation:sample-pack:1.0.0.0:pom -DoutputDirectory=.

The retrieved pom file contains scm information and some sub-modules declaration

2- try to scm:bootstrap or scm:checkout it with maven :
mvn scm:bootstrap -Dusername=<username> -Dpassword=<password> -f sample-pack-1.0.0.0.pom

fail with maven error :
[ERROR] Child module /path/to/some/where/./moduleb of /path/to/some/where/sample-pack-1.0.0.0.pom does not exist
[ERROR] Child module /path/to/some/where/./sample of /path/to/some/where/sample-pack-1.0.0.0.pom does not exist
[ERROR] Child module /path/to/some/where/./modulea of /path/to/some/where/sample-pack-1.0.0.0.pom does not exist