Execute Maven plugin goal on parent module, but not on children

Question

We have a multi-module maven project that uses a profile that defines a buildnumber-maven-plugin to increment a build number and then check it into source control.

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Answer 1

As documented in the Plugins section of the pom reference:

Beyond the standard coordinate of groupId:artifactId:version, there are elements which configure the plugin or this builds interaction with it.

• inherited: true or false, whether or not this plugin configuration should apply to POMs which inherit from this one.

So just add false to the buildnumber-maven-plugin configuration to avoid inheritance in children POMs:

      
        org.codehaus.mojo
        buildnumber-maven-plugin
        1.0-beta-3
        false
        ...