title: Maven Issue - The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory
body: <p>I am using maven release plugin 2.2.1 . In my case <code>release:clean</code> and <code>release:prepare</code> is executing successfully . But when I am trying to execute <code>release:perform</code> it show the following error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>EXIMR-IM-187:rabbit_trunk manojkumarbardhan$ mvn release:perform
  [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO]                                                                         
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Building Curo Fabric Component for RabbitMQ 2.0.20-SNAPSHOT
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] 
  [INFO] --- maven-release-plugin:2.2.1:perform (default-cli) @ curo-fabric-component-rabbitmq-experiments ---
  [INFO] Checking out the project to perform the release ...
  [INFO] Executing: /bin/sh -c cd /Users/manojkumarbardhan/QURO_PROJECT/rabbit_trunk/target &amp;&amp; svn --non-interactive checkout http://ssygh.dgxxxgdf.xxx.com:1080/SVNROOT/CURO/Experiments/migration/tags/curo-fabric-component-rabbitmq-experiments-2.0.19 /Users/manojkumarbardhan/QURO_PROJECT/rabbit_trunk/target/checkout
  [INFO] Working directory: /Users/manojkumarbardhan/QURO_PROJECT/rabbit_trunk/target
  [INFO] Executing goals 'deploy'...
  [WARNING] Maven will be executed in interactive mode, but no input stream has been configured for this MavenInvoker instance.
  [INFO] [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] [INFO] Total time: 0.115s
  [INFO] [INFO] Finished at: Thu Sep 05 17:40:01 GMT+05:30 2013
  [INFO] [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/81M
  [INFO] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/Users/manojkumarbardhan/QURO_PROJECT/rabbit_trunk/target/checkout). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -&gt; [Help 1]
  [INFO] [ERROR] 
  [INFO] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [INFO] [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [INFO] [ERROR] 
  [INFO] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [INFO] [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 10.528s
  [INFO] Finished at: Thu Sep 05 17:40:01 GMT+05:30 2013
  [INFO] Final Memory: 6M/81M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-release-plugin:2.2.1:perform (default-cli) on project curo-fabric-component-rabbitmq-experiments: Maven execution failed, exit code: '1' -&gt; [Help 1]
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoExecutionException
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I do not know what wrong i did.</p>
  
  <p>The process I am following is :-</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>checking out from svn</li>
  <li>cd to that checkout directory</li>
  <li>Executing my necessary svn commands</li>
  <li>Executing <code>mvn release:clean</code></li>
  <li>Executing <code>mvn release:prepare</code></li>
  <li>Executing <code>mvn release:perform</code>    , but it fails.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Thanks in Advance.</p>