Branching

When creating a branch from trunk or a tag you need to make sure that the <scm> configuration in the master pom is correct. Otherwise it will create issues with the release plugin - see HSEARCH-567. The <scm> should look like this (with the correct branch name of course):

<scm>
        <connection>scm:svn:http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/search/branches/Branch_3_2</connection>
        <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.jboss.org/repos/hibernate/search/branches/Branch_3_2</developerConnection>
        <url>http://fisheye.jboss.com/browse/Hibernate/search/branches/Branch_3_2</url>
</scm>

One way to achieve this is to checkout the trunk or the tag from which to branch of and run:

mvn release:branch -DbranchName=<branchName> -DupdateBranchVersions=true

This  will create the branch with the updated poms. If you manually copy  trunk/tag to a branch you will have to manually update the pom version  and scm configuration.