Error finishing release: Error releasing: local branch 'develop' is behind the remote branch

[Andreas Lüdeke]

Hi,

i am currently in the process of testing the maven git flow plugin for our release process and the results are really promising. We reduced the release time from about 30min to < 10min, which is very impressive.

I currently experience the issue the following issues:

Error finishing release: Error releasing: local branch 'develop' is behind the remote branch.

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Caused by: com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.exception.BranchOutOfDateException: local branch 'develop' is behind the remote branch
	at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.AbstractGitFlowCommand.requireLocalBranchNotBehindRemote(AbstractGitFlowCommand.java:179)
	at com.atlassian.jgitflow.core.ReleaseFinishCommand.call(ReleaseFinishCommand.java:122)
	at com.atlassian.maven.plugins.jgitflow.manager.DefaultFlowReleaseManager.finishRelease(DefaultFlowReleaseManager.java:227)
	... 31 more

My expection would be that the maven plugin pulls all changes and tries to merge them automatically before releaseing. Isn't that the case do i need to trigger the pull manullay before release finish?

Best Regards

Andreas

[Jonathan Doklovic]

Currently the plugin does not do a pull for you. We may or may not add the option in the future... it would definitely complicate things if there are merge conflict during the initial pull.