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

Answer 2

Removing my project's target folder from source control fixed this issue for me.

Answer 3

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
    <checkModificationExcludes>
        <checkModificationExclude>pom.xml</checkModificationExclude>
        <checkModificationExclude>**</checkModificationExclude>
    </checkModificationExcludes>
</configuration>

Answer 4

This is just a workaround for the error . i faced same error with maven-release plugin version 2.5.3 and just sorted the error with maven-release 2.3.2

Answer 5

I can confirm, that adding the plugin or configuring it to exclude the pom.xml check did work:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <checkModificationExcludes>
        <checkModificationExclude>pom.xml</checkModificationExclude>
    </checkModificationExcludes>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

Answer 6

For me solution is staging and commiting pom.xml or any other changed file to push git