Releasing with Maven and Git

We were using maven release plug-in along with SVN since last couple of years and every thing was fine. Recently we moved to Git and it broke our maven release process, We did Google for this and found couple of plug-ins but there is no straight forward solution available for the same.

Solution

After couple of days struggle, I found a solution for this problem, and writing this blog thinking that this can help some one else as well.

Plugin & Configurations

	<!-- Add following plug-in in the parent pom file -->
	<plugin>
	<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
	<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.1</version>
	</plugin>
	<plugin>
	<artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId>
	<version>2.5.3</version>
	<configuration>
	<tag>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</tag>
	<message>${project.artifactId}-${project.version} test</message>
	</configuration>
	</plugin>
	<!-- Add SCM configuration in the pom file -->
	<scm>
	<connection>scm:git:https://github.com/{YOUR-REPOSITORY-URL}</connection>
	<developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/{YOUR-REPOSITORY-URL}</developerConnection>
	<url>{YOUR-PROJECT-URL}</url>
	</scm>

view raw pom.xml hosted with ❤ by GitHub

We need to run following commands sequentially

	git config credential.helper store 'cache --timeout 600'
	mvn release:prepare -Dresume=false -DautoVersionSubmodules=true -Darguments="-Dmaven.test.skip=true" -P <Build Profile>
	git commit -a -m "Preparing For Next Iteraion"
	git push

view raw commands.sh hosted with ❤ by GitHub

This will ask you couple of configuration like tag name, Git credential is connection and developer connection urls are HTTPS.