Maven JGit-Flow Plugin

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Introduction

The Maven JGit-Flow Plugin allows to create and merge a new relase, feature or hotfix branch in a simple way.

When starting a new release, the JGit-Flow Plugin the plugin asks for the release version and the next development version. Then a new release branch with the release version is created and the project versions are updated.

Now you can make changes in the release branch, e.g. update the RELEASE-NOTES.

During the finishing, the JGit-Flow Plugin creates a new tag for the release, merges the release branch to the master branch and update the develop branch.

Maven dependency

   <plugin>
      <groupId>external.atlassian.jgitflow</groupId>
      <artifactId>jgitflow-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0-m5.1</version>
      <configuration>
         <flowInitContext>
            <masterBranchName>master</masterBranchName>
             <developBranchName>develop</developBranchName>
            <featureBranchPrefix>feature/</featureBranchPrefix>
            <releaseBranchPrefix>release/</releaseBranchPrefix>
            <hotfixBranchPrefix>hotfix/</hotfixBranchPrefix>
            <versionTagPrefix />
         </flowInitContext>
         <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
      </configuration>
   </plugin>

Start a new release

To start a new release, execute mvn jgitflow:release-start

• autoVersionSubmodules=true - all submodules gets the same version
• allowSnapshots=true - allow SNAPSHOTS, possibly necessary in complex structure

All possible properties for release-start can be found here.

Finish the new release

To finish new release, execute mvn jgitflow:release-finish -DnoDeploy=true

• noDeploy=true - indicates that the install goal is called.

All possible properties for release-finish can be found here.