Maven SCM provides a common API for doing SCM operations.
'org.apache.maven.scm:maven-scm:1.2'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.scm</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-scm</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.apache.maven.scm" name="maven-scm" rev="1.2"/>
"org.apache.maven.scm", "maven-scm", "1.2"