Maven release:prepare : Cannot prepare the release because you have local modifications

Question

I\'m facing a problem with continuum\'s release:prepare phase which fails in scm-check-modifications step with error :

[ERROR] org.apache.maven.shared.rel

Answer 1

For everybody who don't want to change the pom.xml a commandline option does the trick:

mvn [...] -DcheckModificationExcludeList=pom.xml,.maven/spy.log

I had the problem on our hudson / jenkins CI environment which complained about changes in the .maven/spy.log