Externalising SCM credentials with Maven
For some SCM providers you can specify your credentials in the <servers> section of settings.xml. As an <id> use the domain name of your repository. This works for me with mercurial. SubVersion works too. For example, given my pom.xml contains: <scm> <connection>scm:hg:http://jukito.googlecode.com/hg/</connection> <developerConnection>scm:hg:https://jukito.googlecode.com/hg/</developerConnection> <url>http://code.google.com/p/jukito/source/browse/</url> </scm> Then I can specify my credentials in settings.xml as such: … Read more