Perform a dry run

[erwan]

Many times I published a version, only to find out there is something wrong with it (typically cross-publishing not doing what I was expected).

When that happen I have to keep publishing until it does what I want, and I end up burning version numbers with bad versions.

Maybe sbt-release could provide a way to do a "dry run" so we see what artifacts would be published, but without any impact on the source repository or the artifact repository?

[pleszczy]

That's a badly needed feature 👍

[dan-ilin]

As a workaround until this is implemented, you can specify the releaseProcess in build.sbt and leave out the publishArtifacts step.

[sjdurfey]

I've been setting these to publish locally to test out my changes:

publishTo := Some(Resolver.file("local-maven", file(Path.userHome.absolutePath + "/.m2/repository")))
releaseProcess := Seq[ReleaseStep](
  checkSnapshotDependencies, 
  inquireVersions,                    
  runClean,                               
  setReleaseVersion,                    
  publishArtifacts,                       
)