Deriving maven artifact version from git branch

Question

We have a workflow requirement that essentially mean that we need to have the artifact version of a module externally defined from the current branch in git.

I.e. if

Answer 1

If it is sufficient to set the git tag and version information in the artifact file name, you can use maven-jgit-buildnumber-plugin:

  ${artifactId}-${git.buildnumber}
  
    
      ru.concerteza.buildnumber
      maven-jgit-buildnumber-plugin
      1.2.7
      
        
          git-buildnumber
          
            extract-buildnumber
          
          prepare-package