On Thu 3 Oct 2019 at 16:13, Enrico Olivelli <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> I am going to propose a new release procedure in Apache ZooKeeper project
> in the direction of using the Maven Release Plugin.
> Usually with the Maven Release Plugin you are performing to tasks:
>
> mvn release:prepare -> change version + create tag
> mvn release:perform  -> create final artifacts and deploy
>
> in the specific case of Apache ZooKeeper we have a C-client that  contains
> C sources under a mavenized project, so in src/c or something like that,
> not so important.
>
> The important fact is that I have the 'version' in pom.xml and in the C
> client (make/configure based build).
> I would like to introduce an hook that during "release:prepare" while
> changing the version in all of the pom.xml files it changes the version
> inside the C project.
> I just need a way to invoke a bash script with a 'sed' command that has the
> new VERSION variable in a shell environment.
> I can also write some java code or whatever else....
>
> But I need some "hook" during release:prepare.
>
> I can't find any documentation about this feature other then
> "prepationGoals" but it is not documented and there is no good example on
> the Internet
>
> https://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/examples/run-goals-before-commit.html
>
> Any idea or working example ?


So if you are using GIT as your SCM, as long as you do `git add
name-of-file` after changing the file inside preparationGoals then it will
get committed with the pom.xml changes.

A bit hacky, but works. My only use of it is closed source so cannot share


>
> Thanks
> Enrico
>
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