The SCM API provides mechanisms to manage all SCM tools.
'org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm-api:1.9'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm-api</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.apache.maven.scm" name="maven-scm-api" rev="1.9"/>
"org.apache.maven.scm", "maven-scm-api", "1.9"