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 tried using this plugin?: https://github.com/ktoso/maven-git-commit-id-plugin. You can configure it to generate a properties file with all the relevant info about your repo state:

• branch
• describe
• commitId
• buildUserName
• buildUserEmail
• buildTime
• commitUserName
• commitUserEmail
• commitMessageShort
• commitMessageFull
• commitTime