how to make maven release plugin skip tests?

Question

I\'m running mvn release:prepare -Darguments=\"-Dmaven.test.skip=true -DskipTests\" on the master checkout of Spotify\'s docker-client. But I can\'t get maven\'s re

Answer 1

This is one of the first hits in google for this problem and yet doesn't have the most likely explanation and solution, so here is my attempt.

I faced the same issue as the OP in running release:prepare with -DskipTests passed in via -Darguments not getting recognized. After digging in, I noticed that a grandparent POM (parent of the parent) has the following config:

        
          org.apache.maven.plugins
          maven-release-plugin
          2.5.2
          
            -B
          
        

It actually has more config, but I only show what is most relevant for this problem, which is the -B. This is hardcoding the arguments configuration parameter to -B instead of letting it read the arguments property. To get around, I added the below in the project pom and it started working:

        
          org.apache.maven.plugins
          maven-release-plugin
          
            $(arguments)