This is clone of original buildnumber-maven-plugin which generate ${buildNumber} as integer (commits count) instead of hash for GIT.

It is very usefull for Android development where versionCode must be always number.

If you want to use GIT commit hash new variable ${buildId} was introduced.

For SVN will be ${buildNumber} and ${buildId} the same.

This version also allow set buildNumberIncrement configuration variable that will be add to the original ${buildNumber}. This is very useful if you already have Android app on the Play store with bigger versionCode number that original ${buildNumber} has.

• Original plugin webpage: http://mojo.codehaus.org/buildnumber-maven-plugin/
• Look here http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MBUILDNUM-93 for more information.