“Git fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref” while using maven release plugin

Question

I get the following error output while running the Maven release plugin prepare step i.e. mvn release:prepare --batch-mode -DreleaseVersion=1.1.2 -DdevelopmentVersion=

Answer 1

For us the issue was with maven version specified in the pom file. Corrected the maven version specified in the pom file in accordance with the one in bamboo fixed the issue