maven release plugin, git, and the pom's not at the top

Question

I\'ve got a git repo where the top level directory has three directories in it: java, COM, and csharp. As you might guess, the pom.xml lives in the java directory.

A

Answer 1

Perfoming release didn't deploy properly in not-root directory with maven-release-plugin version 2.4 (with both maven 3.0.3 and 3.0.4). Downgrading to maven-release-plugin version 2.2.1 fixed the problem.