unable to pull the code from bitbucket to maven

[NAGA SAKETH JALIGAMA]

I am using the following element in maven pom.xml file to pull the code from bitbucket, but after compiling, am not seeing the pulled code anywhere.

<scm>
<connection>scm:git:git://bitbucket.org/companyname/reponame.git</connection>
<developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://git@bitbucket.org/companyname/reponame</developerConnection>
<url>git@bitbucket.org:companyname/reponame.git</url>

</scm>

[Timothy]

1)git clone
2)git ls-remote
3)git pull branch
4)git checkout.

but here i want only 2,3,4 steps or atleast just 3,4 but i dont want clone.

There is no such thing as checking out without cloning for Git. 1, 2, 3 and 4 are theoretically correct and sound.

[NAGA SAKETH JALIGAMA]

<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.6</version> <configuration> <goals>checkout</goals> <checkoutDirectory>target/checkout</checkoutDirectory> <username>xyz</username> <password>abc</password> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>check-out-project1</id> <phase>generate-sources</phase> <goals> <goal>checkout</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> I am using above code, but it is doing 1)git clone 2)git ls-remote 3)git pull branch 4)git checkout. but here i want only 2,3,4 steps or atleast just 3,4 but i dont want clone.

[Timothy]

What's the command you are using? Are you using any other plugins with the scm tag?