diff --git a/dev-support/test-patch.sh b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
index 93663193255..509edeb7d2b 100755
--- a/dev-support/test-patch.sh
+++ b/dev-support/test-patch.sh
@@ -841,14 +841,13 @@ runTests () {
   echo "======================================================================"
   echo ""
   echo ""
-
   failed_tests=""
   echo "$MVN clean test -Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=2 -P runAllTests -D${PROJECT_NAME}PatchProcess"
   export MAVEN_OPTS="${MAVEN_OPTS}"
   ulimit -a
-  $MVN clean test -Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=2 -P runAllTests -D${PROJECT_NAME}PatchProcess
   # Need to export this so the zombie subshell picks up current content
   export JIRA_COMMENT
+  $MVN clean test -Dsurefire.rerunFailingTestsCount=2 -P runAllTests -D${PROJECT_NAME}PatchProcess
   if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then
      ### Find and format names of failed tests
      failed_tests=`find . -name 'TEST*.xml' | xargs $GREP  -l -E "<failure|<error" | sed -e "s|.*target/surefire-reports/TEST-|                  |g" | sed -e "s|\.xml||g"`