In our SVN repo, we store tags like this: trunk project_a project_b branches project_a branch_x branch_y project_b tags project_a 1.0 1.1 project_b 1.0 When I run the Maven release plugin's "prepare" goal on project A, by default it creates the tag as "tags/project_a-x.x", which does not match my tag naming scheme above. I am thus depending upon whoever does the release (i.e. a fallible human) to
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