title: Create a branch from a tag with maven
body: <p>I develop in trunk and periodically tag "stable releases" with the maven release plugin. For example:</p>
  
  <p><code>/trunk is MyProject 1.1-SNAPSHOT</code></p>
  
  <p>creates the stable release</p>
  
  <p><code>/tags/MyProject-1.1</code></p>
  
  <p>Works fine, no problems, just perfect.</p>
  
  <p>Sometimes I have to deploy a hotfix but the trunk isn't ready, yet. So I need a branch from the last stable tag. Can maven help me here? Currently I copy the tag to the new branch location 
  <code>/branches/MyProject-1.1.1-SNAPSHOT</code> and update the versions with <code>mvn versions:set</code></p>