It took me a long time to understand why Maven uses version strings like 4.2.1-SNAPSHOT but this is exactly why it's useful. (The standard practice is to strip

It took me a long time to understand why Maven uses version strings like 4.2.1-SNAPSHOT but this is exactly why it's useful. (The standard practice is to strip the "-SNAPSHOT" off for the release commit, then stick it back on for the next commit, but with a bumped minor version. Both commits are then pushed at once, so stuff built locally always is marked as a SNAPSHOT.)