Put current git branch to project version

Question

I want to put the current git branch into the version field in pom xml. I found some post in the internet suggesting to do something like:

<version>${scm.version}</version>

but this seems not to work with git. Are there any other solutions?

Possible duplicate of [Deriving maven artifact version from git branch](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13583953/deriving-maven-artifact-version-from-git-branch) — Aldian, Sep 17 '18 at 15:33

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 04 '14 at 13:05

18

It's pretty straightforward. You can use it to get the git branch with

${git.branch}

So in your case it would go:

<version>${git.branch}</version>

answered Feb 04 '14 at 13:05

Arnaud Potier

9

Unfortunately it won't work in a multi module maven project because the reactors executes before any plugin is executed and it needs the version to be set to a constant or it fails – Aldian Jun 21 '17 at 14:58
Works Great! Thanks – Deepanshu Rathi Dec 22 '21 at 05:28
this is actually not supported, here is a workaround but not suggested https://github.com/git-commit-id/git-commit-id-maven-plugin/issues/256#issuecomment-321476196 – Qianlong Mar 13 '23 at 17:01

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '16 at 07:32

i created a plugin for this behavior (and by extend to link sonar to my maven projects).

The only thing you need to do is

add following plugin to your pom.xml

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.viae-it.maven</groupId>
    <artifactId>sonar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <version>LATEST</version>
</plugin>

call the plugin to set the git branch

mvn com.viae-it.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:set-git-branch

then you can use the sonar.branch property

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