Is it possible to use maven buildnumber plugin to generate build number without any scm check?

Question

Getting the following exception while using maven build number plugin. Is it possible to disable SCM check while using the build number plugin? Can we use this plugin to gen

Answer 1

The following used to work, if I'm not mistaken:

  
    org.codehaus.mojo
    buildnumber-maven-plugin
    1.0-beta-3
    
      buildNumber.value
      buildNumber.timestamp
      {0,date,yyyyMMdd-HHmm}
      
        timestamp
      
    
    
      
        validate
        
          create