Thank you for helping out. Yes, i can ask the release plugin to ignore untracked files but i was just wondering what was going on.
It does make sense to generate these control files outside the workspace -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/571dbe8b-d256-4cf3-a776-d50db6495a69%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.