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Running mvn:release with Subversion 1.5.x

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Posted in: J2EE, SCM, System engineering, java, maven 2, open source, subversion.

When attempting to prepare a release using maven and the maven-release-plugin, you are currently very likely to see your build fail with a message such as:


[INFO] Executing: svn --non-interactive copy --file /tmp/...commit . https://subversion..../tags/...
[INFO] Working directory: ...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Unable to tag SCM
Provider message:
The svn tag command failed.
Command output:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: File '...' already exists

If you do, you are using subversion 1.5.x which no longer supports tagging from a local working copy, thus causing the unfortunately very misleading error message.

This is a known issue of the subversion sourcecode management (SCM) and there is a simple workaround:
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Configuring Eclipse Ganymede with subversion in Ubuntu 8.04

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Posted in: J2EE, SCM, System engineering, eclipse, java, subclipse, subversion, subversive, ubuntu.

After installing the all-new Eclipse ganymede (by downloading it from the eclipse site) under ubuntu 8.04 i ran into some trouble after installing version 1.4.1 of the subclipse subversion plugin.

Long story short, subclipse requires subversion 1.5, but ubuntu 8.04 provides 1.4.x.
If you still want to use subclipse with ganymede in ubuntu, there are only two ways two achieve this – both of which i cannot recommend because they are hacks or bad compromises.
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