diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 57f88e0217..e956996dee 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -498,6 +498,8 @@
     <freemarker.version>2.3.19</freemarker.version>
     <jetty.version>7.6.3.v20120416</jetty.version>
     <logback.version>1.0.3</logback.version>
+    <jgit.version>1.3.0.201202151440-r</jgit.version>
+    <svnkit.version>1.7.4-1.v1-SNAPSHOT</svnkit.version>
     <project.build.javaLevel>1.6</project.build.javaLevel>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <netbeans.hint.license>SCM-BSD</netbeans.hint.license>
diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/pom.xml b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/pom.xml
index 2df03d2bbc..83f5d7f278 100644
--- a/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/scm-plugins/scm-git-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -60,10 +60,6 @@
     </dependency>
 
   </dependencies>
-
-  <properties>
-    <jgit.version>1.3.0.201202151440-r</jgit.version>
-  </properties>
   
   <!-- for jgit -->
   
diff --git a/scm-plugins/scm-svn-plugin/pom.xml b/scm-plugins/scm-svn-plugin/pom.xml
index 77c42d767f..d7411eb180 100644
--- a/scm-plugins/scm-svn-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/scm-plugins/scm-svn-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -58,10 +58,6 @@
 
   </dependencies>
 
-  <properties>
-    <svnkit.version>1.7.4-1.v1-SNAPSHOT</svnkit.version>
-  </properties>
-  
   <repositories>
     
     <repository>