Hi Bernd, you should make sure you are using a recent version of maven-release-plugin (>=2.5). Older versions have compatibility issues because of the git scm provider they depend on which is incompatible with current git versions.
Vincent 2015-10-05 22:26 GMT+02:00 Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net>: > Unlike with a SVN workspace the release:prepare goal in a Git workspace > seems to not error-out when it sees untracked (git status results > in ??) files. I have seen this on windows. > > In some cases it was not mentioning the files at all (they are shown in > -X debug output) in other cases it was printing a warning that it does > not understand ?? file. > > [WARNING] Ignoring unrecognized line: ?? file.txt > > The files are not ignored, neither by the releaseBackup patterns nor > by .gitignore. Any idea if this is a bug? > > I havent found a bug mentioning this, but this bug here shows an > example for the warning: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-881 > > My Path contains GitHubs "git 4 windows" in version 1.9.5.github.0 > > > 36047 [INFO] Verifying that there are no local modifications... > 36050 [INFO] ignoring changes on: **\pom.xml.next, > **\release.properties, **\pom.xml.branch, **\pom.xml.tag, > **\pom.xml.backup, **\pom.xml.releaseBackup 36114 [INFO] Executing: > cmd.exe /X /C "git status --porcelain" 36116 [INFO] Working directory: > C:\ws\github\jabylon 36363 [DEBUG] ?? dirty.txt > 36427 [DEBUG] ?? pom.xml.releaseBackup > 36428 [DEBUG] ?? release.properties > 36444 [INFO] Checking dependencies and plugins for snapshots ... > > Gruss > Bernd > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >