[jira] Commented: (MRELEASE-699) release:update-versions should support -DreleaseVersion too (not only -DdevelopmentVersion), so it also supports not suffixing the version with -SNAPSHOT

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

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Brett Porter commented on MRELEASE-699:
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There's several things here:

* I'm not quite sure of the motivation for update-versions in the first place - maybe we should recommend the versions plugin instead

* regardless of the above, we need to document the differences, and fix the misleading statement (or apply this patch)

* we still need to look at the one line change that appears to be correct but doesn't reference a specific fix



> release:update-versions should support -DreleaseVersion too (not only -DdevelopmentVersion), so it also supports not suffixing the version with -SNAPSHOT
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MRELEASE-699
>                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MRELEASE-699
>             Project: Maven 2.x Release Plugin
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Geoffrey De Smet
>         Attachments: 0001-MRELEASE-699-release-update-versions-should-support-.patch
>
>
> The documentation
>   http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/examples/update-versions.html
> states "The update-versions goal can use the same properties used by the prepare goal for specifying the versions to be used."
> That's not true, as releaseVersion is not supported:
>   http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/prepare-mojo.html#releaseVersion
> This means, that if you do this:
>   mvn --batch-mode release:update-versions -DdevelopmentVersion=1.2.0
> that the set version is not 1.2.0, but in fact 1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.

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