How to execute multiple goals in one maven command, but with different arguments for each goal

Question

I am trying to run 2 maven goals in one maven command like:

mvn release:prepare release:perform -Darguments=\'-Dmaven.test.skip=true\'

but,

Answer 1

I have spent hours on this.

My working release command is:

-Darguments='-DskipTests=true' -DskipTests release:prepare release:perform

The problem actually was in my release plugin:

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <arguments>${release.arguments}</arguments>

The "arguments" parameter of the release plugin was overriding the -Darguments that I pass to the release:prepare (in order to be passed to release:perform by release:prepare).

Answer 2

You can use the following:

mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true release:prepare release:perform

Within release-plugin the arguments are passed via -Darguments='....' to the sub process which is started by release:perform. The other arguments are passed to the process which is started by release:prepare.