Maven scanner and sonar.branch error

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Hello all, brand new to sonarqube, evaluating community edition for the first time.

I’m using the latest sonarqube 9.4 server and trying to get my first maven scanner to work. I just followed the documented example for settings.xml.

The old project I have requires java 1.8. So I’ve set JAVA_HOME to the required java and do the usual:
mvn clean install
which works fine. I then switch JAVA_HOME to java 11 and try:
mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.login=[api key]

I end up with an error similar to:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.sonarsource.scanner.maven:sonar-maven-plugin:3.9.1.2184:sonar (default-cli) on project apps: The ‘sonar.branch’ parameter is no longer supported.

I’m using community edition, and I haven’t tried to set any special options like sonar.branch. If it matters I’m using maven 3.6.3 and had a stock settings.xml which I only added in the maven scanner info as per the documentation. I have no need for branch analysis right now. The directory I run the build from has no .git information, so I’ve no idea where or why it is trying to set sonar.branch.

Any thoughts?

Thanks for the help

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Hey there.

Is it possible that sonar.branch is lingering in your project’s pom.xml file?

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Thanks, I think you pointed out the obvious to me, something I didn’t realize …

Looks like this project I am working on had some sonarqube work done 8-10 yrs ago, and there are very old sonar stuff peppered all over the place … I had no idea.

In this case, the pom.xml file one directory level up had the offending sonar.branch statement.

Thanks! Simple answer but you saved my sanity …

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