CI checkout on floating tag, then using maven-scm-plugin to update pom.xml to latest?

[De Smet Ringo <Ri...@staff.telenet.be>]

Hello,
 
I am trying to use Hudson to perform automated software releases based on a floating CVS tag. When developers move the floating tag on the sources, they indicate that the tagged code can go in a next build. Hudson then checks out the code and executes a release:prepare. Problem now is that the changes to pom.xml (done by the release plugin) can't be checked in since the CVS information indicates that the version retrieved is a sticky tag (although usually it is the latest version). To get around this, I want to use maven-scm-plugin (in the validate phase of my Maven run) to update pom.xml to the latest version. However, I tried several goals (update, checkout, export) but pom.xml remains the the version based on the tag. 
 
Can anyone tell me how to update pom.xml to the latest version coming from the branch configured in the connectionUrl/developerConnectionUrl info from the POM? 
Also, my experiments so far seem to indicate that includes/excludes configuration is ignored in the goals tried. Known bug?
 
Ringo
 
 

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