[jira] Created: (MRELEASE-430) Add a release:copy mojo to be able to re-release an existing tag under another name

["Baptiste MATHUS (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

Add a release:copy mojo to be able to re-release an existing tag under another name
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                 Key: MRELEASE-430
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-430
             Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin
          Issue Type: New Feature
    Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-8
            Reporter: Baptiste MATHUS
            Priority: Minor


Hi,
We're currently encountering a use case that we think could interestingly and easily be managed by the release plugin.

In fact, we recently released some version for a given artifact. 
Say we released _pof-1.0.alpha01.ja_ under the tag (svn) _tags/pof/1.0.alpha01_.
After some time spent verifying that the release is correct, if no problem is detected, then we would like to simply "re-release" this tag under the new name _pof-1.0.beta01.jar_ (note the qualifier change).

Some additional mojo could be run with something like the following contract:
{{mvn release:copy -DconnectionUrl="scm:svn:svn://svnserver/pof/tags/1.0.alpha01" -DnewVersion=1.0.beta01}}

And it could do the following:
* checkout the project sources from the given connectionUrl
* locally modify the project pom so that it updates to the "newVersion" version and the scm block
* commit/check in the modified project in a new tag named "newVersion"

I guess this use case is quite close to a classical perform, only slightly different.

Cheers.


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