Maven Buildnumber plugin - Git

Question

The Maven Buildnumber plugin doesn\'t appear to work with GIT yet. Is there a workaround for the time being? I recently switched from SVN to GIT and have found it to be an eas

Answer 1

The current version of buildNumber plugin - 1.0 - supports the Git SCM. In the version 1.1-SNAPSHOT there is a new configuration tag shortRevisionLength for getting the short git id. More details http://yevgen-fr.blogspot.com/2012/02/maven-buildnumber-plugin-short-revision.html