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 encountered this same problem when using cygwin+maven+git. It showed no errors but did not attempt to commit the pom changes, just stopped after git status:

[INFO] Checking in modified POMs...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git add -- pom.xml"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git status"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Tagging release with the label portal-automation-0.3.9...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git tag -F C:\cygwin64\tmp\maven-scm-1212196933.commit portal-automation-0.3.9"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git push git@barrel.mitre.org:org-mitre-caasd/portal-automation.git portal-automation-0.3.9"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git ls-files"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Transforming 'portal-automation'...
[INFO] Not removing release POMs
[INFO] Checking in modified POMs...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git add -- pom.xml"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git status"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Release preparation complete.

As you can see, no errors, just didn't commit after checking status. However when I ran from windows command prompt instead:

...
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git add -- pom.xml"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git status"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git commit --verbose -F C:\Users\ltheisen\AppData\Local\Temp\maven-scm-2030091036.commit pom.xml"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git symbolic-ref HEAD"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "git push git@barrel.mitre.org:org-mitre-caasd/portal-automation.git master:master"
[INFO] Working directory: C:\Users\ltheisen\git\caasd-portal-automation
[INFO] Release preparation complete.

You can see that it did commit after checking the status. Not sure if this is your issue as well, but it worked for me.

Note that this would mean you need to install msysgit