Maven SCM Plugin: Git SSH provider not found - maven

Question

I'm having a problem using the Maven SCM plugin with Git. I cannot get the plugin to work at all because it says the provider is not found. It gives me the following error when I run mvn scm:tag:
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-scm-plugin:1.9:tag
(default-cli) on project hello-world-service-minimal: Cannot run tag command :
Can't load the scm provider. No such provider: 'git:ssh://git#git-eng.REDACTED.com'
. -> [Help 1]
My pom.xml looks like the following:
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>net.REDACTED</groupId>
<artifactId>hello-world-service-minimal</artifactId>
<version>1.0.13</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>hello-world-service</name>
<properties>
<lang.java.source>1.7</lang.java.source>
<lang.java.target>1.7</lang.java.target>
<dep.junit>4.11</dep.junit>
</properties>
<scm>
<developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git#git-eng.REDACTED.com|PROJECT_NAME/hello-world-service-minimal.git</developerConnection>
<url>scm:git:http://git-eng.REDACTED.com/PROJECT_NAME/hello-world-service-minimal/tree/master</url>
</scm>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>
<id>dev.release</id>
<url>file:${project.build.directory}/repository/</url>
</repository>
</distributionManagement>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>versions-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
<configuration>
<tag>${project.artifactId}-${project.version}</tag>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Anyone have any idea how to fix this? This is driving me crazy. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong at all.

Answer 1

The <url> tag is for a regular browsable URL. You need a <connection> tag (<connection> is for read access, <developerConnection> is for write access):
<scm>
<connection>scm:git:ssh://git#git-eng.REDACTED.com|PROJECT_NAME/hello-world-service-minimal.git</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git#git-eng.REDACTED.com|PROJECT_NAME/hello-world-service-minimal.git</developerConnection>
<url>http://git-eng.REDACTED.com/PROJECT_NAME/hello-world-service-minimal/tree/master</url>
</scm>
See the Maven POM Reference for more information.