Maven 2.x Release Plugin

Provide a mechanism to undo the effects of prepare

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 2.0-beta-4
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta-5
  • Component/s: None
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    XP
  • Number of attachments :
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Description

Sometimes you don't know if your prepare will work until you try it. In these cases the dryRun option does not find the failures, examples are bad paths in the scm section.

It would be nice if the release plugin could undo the changes that the prepare action caused. Currently, in a multi-module project there are a lot of files to manually fix if this happens.

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Dan Tran added a comment -

One more usecase for this enhancement:

I have about 70 modules to change from 1.0-beta-3-SNAPSHOT to 1.0-RC-1-SNAPSHOT since
I'd like to skip beta-3

-Dan

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Dan Tran added a comment - One more usecase for this enhancement: I have about 70 modules to change from 1.0-beta-3-SNAPSHOT to 1.0-RC-1-SNAPSHOT since I'd like to skip beta-3 -Dan
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Daniel Nilsson added a comment -

Hi!
Mayby a prepare-commit-rollback scenario would work.
Ie you first do a
release:prepare (which makes a couple of temporary files, copies of existing pom etc, test tagging in scm etc) This anyhow changes the pom.xml to the new state.
release:commit actually carries out the changes in all files, tags in scm etc.
release:rollback can be used after release:prepare has been done, but a user regrets his action.This target restores the project state to the same as before the prepare-target was executed.

-Daniel

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Daniel Nilsson added a comment - Hi! Mayby a prepare-commit-rollback scenario would work. Ie you first do a release:prepare (which makes a couple of temporary files, copies of existing pom etc, test tagging in scm etc) This anyhow changes the pom.xml to the new state. release:commit actually carries out the changes in all files, tags in scm etc. release:rollback can be used after release:prepare has been done, but a user regrets his action.This target restores the project state to the same as before the prepare-target was executed. -Daniel
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Emmanuel Venisse added a comment -

Done by release:clean and release:rollback mojos

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Emmanuel Venisse added a comment - Done by release:clean and release:rollback mojos

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  • Assignee:
    Emmanuel Venisse
    Reporter:
    David Hoffer
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