[MRELEASE-1141] maven release plugin overwrites project.build.outputTimestamp value

**[Henning Schmiedehausen](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=henning)** opened **[MRELEASE-1141](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-1141?redirect=false)** and commented

I am using  `${git.commit.time}`  as the setting for reproducible timestamps to use the git timestamp as the timestamp for the reproducible build.

When running "release:prepare", the plugin replaces this property reference with an actual timestamp, thus my setting gets lost. I am not interested in having a value there, I'd like to use the git timestamp.

There seems to be no setting to not clobber this value.

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**Affects:** 3.0.1

1 votes, 3 watchers

Start by reproducing release:prepare with project.build.outputTimestamp set to ${git.commit.time}, then trace where the Maven release plugin replaces that property with a timestamp. Done means the configured reference is preserved rather than overwritten, with coverage for this reproducible-build setting.

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