Is there any way to roll back a release?

[Dave Alvarado]

Hi,

I'm using Maven 3.0.3. Is there any way to roll back a release? I tried to release my project, but it failed midway through when trying to create the tag …

[INFO] Checking in modified POMs...
[WARNING] Your scm URL use a deprecated format. The new format is :[username[:password]@]hostname:port:/projectName/[viewName/][folderHiearchy/]
[INFO] Working directory: /Users/davea/Documents/workspace-sts-2.6.0.SR1/project/Technology/project/tools/selenium
[INFO] Command line: /bin/sh -c stcmd ci -x -nologo -stop -p [e-mail]:49201/project/project/Technology/project/tools/selenium -fp /Users/davea/Documents/workspace-sts-2.6.0.SR1/project/Technology/project/tools/selenium -r '[maven-release-plugin] prepare release selenium-utils-1.0' -eol on pom.xml
[INFO] Tagging release with the label selenium-utils-1.0...
[WARNING] Your scm URL use a deprecated format. The new format is :[username[:password]@]hostname:port:/projectName/[viewName/][folderHiearchy/]
[INFO] Working directory: /Users/davea/Documents/workspace-sts-2.6.0.SR1/project/Technology/project/tools/selenium
[INFO] Command line: /bin/sh -c stcmd label -x -nologo -stop -p [e-mail]:49201/project/project/Technology/project/tools/selenium -nl selenium-utils-1.0 -b
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 27.510s
[INFO] Finished at: Thu Jun 30 14:39:44 CDT 2011
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0:prepare (default-cli) on project selenium-utils: Unable to tag SCM
[ERROR] Provider message:
[ERROR] The starteam command failed.
[ERROR] Command output:
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Now when I run the release again, I get the error …

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0:prepare (default-cli) on project selenium-utils: You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list. -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.0:prepare (default-cli) on project selenium-utils: You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list.
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:213)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:153)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:145)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:84)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleModuleBuilder.buildProject(LifecycleModuleBuilder.java:59)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.singleThreadedBuild(LifecycleStarter.java:183)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:161)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:319)
	at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:156)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:537)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:196)
	at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:141)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:290)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:230)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:409)
	at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:352)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoFailureException: You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list.
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:219)
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.execute(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:181)
	at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultBuildPluginManager.executeMojo(DefaultBuildPluginManager.java:101)
	at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.MojoExecutor.execute(MojoExecutor.java:209)
	... 19 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.shared.release.ReleaseFailureException: You don't have a SNAPSHOT project in the reactor projects list.
	at org.apache.maven.shared.release.phase.CheckPomPhase.execute(CheckPomPhase.java:111)
	at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:203)
	at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:140)
	at org.apache.maven.shared.release.DefaultReleaseManager.prepare(DefaultReleaseManager.java:103)
	at org.apache.maven.plugins.release.PrepareReleaseMojo.prepareRelease(PrepareReleaseMojo.java:211)

Thanks, - Dave

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Dave,
It sounds like you want to roll back the selenium version used rather than the Maven version. If this is the case, you just specify the version you want in your pom.xml where you request selenium. If this is done in a parent pom, you can copy that entry to your child pom which will override it.

If you want to rollback Maven, you have to install the version you want to another directory. (or delete 3.0.3 and then rollback)

[Tim Holloway]

I'm not quite sure what Selenium might be doing here, but the release:prepare goal is supposed to modify the release ID in the POM, verify that all your source code has been checked in, and tag the code in version control. If your VCS is SVN, that operation is atomic. Other systems, such as CVS could potentially fail with only part of the code tagged.

IIRC, there's a backup of the POM made when the POM is updated. For the most part, you should be able to rerun the goal, possibly with an override that Maven suggests. However, I think you've made Selenium unhappy, so there may be some stuff above and beyond your Maven stuff that needs repairing.