Plugin failure on Windows

[rippling-rsistla]

The directory-maven-plugin plugin was failing for me on my Windows machine with the error "Cannot find a single highest directory for this project set": . I looked into the plugin code and investigated this further. The failure happened on HighestBasedirGoal.java: 109.

The issue seems to be due my windows environment. If I do:
cd c:\src\git\repo
mvn clean install

the maven plugin fails. If I do

cd C:\src\git\repo (note the case sensitivity of c)
mvn clean install

the maven command succeeds. Could this be due to a bug in the plugin? Instead of startsWith or String's compareTo, using File's compareTo - might have solved this issue.

[jdcasey]

I don't have a windows machine on which to test. Do you have any interest in making that change and testing to see if it works? If so, I'd be happy to look over a PR and probably merge / re-release.

[ilya-g]

I confirm I can reproduce this too, with the exactly same steps: by invoking maven from current directory starting with a lowercase drive letter.

Also, I find the error message quite uninformative: it states that "First two candidates directories don't share a common root." but does not tell which are those two candidates.

[hazendaz]

seems odd, haven't seen the issue but windows doesn't directly care about case, using git bash possibly?

[hazendaz]

seems fixed in 2017 at a7cc705 and probably should be closed as a result.