How to customise the tag format of the Maven release plugin?

Question

In our SVN repo, we store tags like this:

trunk
    project_a
    project_b
branches
    project_a
        branch_x
        branch_y
    project_b
tags
    proje         


        

Answer 1

The release plugin now supports the tagNameFormat configuration option, which defaults to @{project.artifactId}-@{project.version}. In your case, you could do something like:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <tagNameFormat>@{project.artifactId}/@{project.version}</tagNameFormat>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 2

It looks like this is not possible until one of these bugs is fixed:

• MRELEASE-150: Can't add prefix to tags without affecting version (not scheduled)
• MRELEASE-159: Support a pattern to generate the release tag (scheduled for 2.2)
• MRELEASE-259: Provide a configuration settings for default tag/label to use when releasing (not scheduled)

Answer 3

If you are passing in the releaseVersion, you can do this:

<tag>${project.artifactId}/${releaseVersion}</tag>