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

Have you checked the buildnumber-maven-plugin which gives you the opportunity to use the revision number of git. But you needed something different. Furthermore i would suggest to do a thing like:

   1.0.0-SNAPSHOT 
   1.0.0-SNAPSHOT 

beeing on master

on a branch you can simple change the version to

  1.0.0-BF-SNAPSHOT