[MRELEASE-1000] Property to add release.properties to commit

**[Archimedes Trajano](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=trajano)** opened **[MRELEASE-1000](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-1000?redirect=false)** and commented

The purpose of this is to allow a release:perform on a tag checkout that contains the release.properties already rather than expecting it to be present.

The way it would work is doing a prepare before doing the tag, add the "release.properties" file and before committing the new snapshot poms delete the "release.properties" file.

This should be done via a user property.

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1 votes, 2 watchers

Start by tracing the release:prepare and release:perform entry points and how the tag checkout and snapshot POM commit are handled. Determine where a user property could control retaining release.properties; done means a tag can include the file for release:perform while it is removed before the snapshot POM commit.

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