mvn release:prepare not committing changes to pom.xml

Question

I\'m trying to release a Jenkins plugin (stashNotifier) with Maven and face a problem with the release plugin.

mvn clean release:prepare

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Answer 1

I solved the issue on my side (running maven 3.0.5) by updating the git scm provider dependency, not the release plugin version:

  
    
      maven-release-plugin
      2.4.2
      
        
          org.apache.maven.scm
          maven-scm-provider-gitexe
          1.8.1
        
       
      
    

The git scm 1.8.1 version correctly makes the git commit (tested with the prepare and rollback goals).

EDIT: Different versions of maven-release-plugin and maven-scm-provider-gitexe may be required depending on your environment. See the comments for more discussion.