[jira] [Created] (MRELEASE-933) maven-release-plugin:perform from a tag is broken for Git in version 2.5

["Eric Leventhal Arthen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Eric Leventhal Arthen created MRELEASE-933:
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             Summary: maven-release-plugin:perform from a tag is broken for Git in version 2.5
                 Key: MRELEASE-933
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-933
             Project: Maven Release Plugin
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.5
            Reporter: Eric Leventhal Arthen


We are also blocked from using maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform for Git releases because it no longer passes in the tag name so the "git clone" fails.

This worked correctly in maven-release-plugin:2.3.2:perform, with that version we got a command like this:

    git clone --branch my-base-1.4.6 git@bithub:abcde/fghij.git /home/buildacct/work/5f89075470257ef1/base/target/checkout

(Note that the name here is (correctly) a tag name created by release:prepare, even though it is passed to --branch.)

With maven-release-plugin:2.5:perform it does not include the actual tag name after "--branch" so the command fails.

    git clone --branch git@bithub.brightcove.com:abcde/fghij.git /home/buildacct/work/7483cd6cc5ce81ea/target/checkout
   [ERROR] The git-clone command failed.

We have to downgrade to the older maven-release-plugin, 2.3.2. From the ticket below this also worked in 2.2.1. I have not tried other versions.

Found a description of this problem in SCM-729 in a comment in Feb 2015, but are creating this ticket because the issue is a recently introduced bug and that ticket is a feature request for a different component.



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