title: org.apache.maven.BuildFailureException: No SCM URL was provided to perform the release from
body: <p>I'm using Maven 2.2.1 and I sucessfully ran:</p>
  <pre><code>mvn -B release:clean release:prepare
  </code></pre>
  <p>But get the error message:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>No SCM URL was provided to perform the release from</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>when I run:</p>
  <pre><code>mvn release:perform
  </code></pre>
  <p>My <code>pom.xml</code> have the <code>scm</code> tags defined correctly:</p>
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;scm&gt;
      &lt;url&gt;file:///C:/tmp/svnrepo/myproj/trunk&lt;/url&gt;        
      &lt;connection&gt;scm:svn:file:///C:/tmp/svnrepo/myproj/trunk&lt;/connection&gt;
      &lt;developerConnection&gt;scm:svn:file:///C:/tmp/svnrepo/myproj/trunk&lt;/developerConnection&gt;        
  &lt;/scm&gt;
  </code></pre>