I am following the instructions from: http://cemerick.com/2010/08/24/hosting-maven-repos-on-github/ Make sure you have maven 3, not 2!! JBlas ===== git clone git@github.com:tjhunter/mm-maven-dependencies.git git clone git://github.com/mikiobraun/jblas.git cd jblas/ mvn -DaltDeploymentRepository=snapshot-repo::default::file:../mm-maven-dependencies/releases/ clean deploy cd ../mm-maven-dependencies git add releases