diff --git a/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh b/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
index 8946c6e295..b4316a0307 100644
--- a/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
+++ b/scripts/travis/update_downstream.sh
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ git --no-pager diff pom.xml
 git add pom.xml
 
 if [[ "${TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" =~ \[force[^\]]*\] ]]; then
-  forceToken=$(echo "${TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" | sed "s|^.*\(\[force[^]]*\]\).*$|\1|g")
-  git commit --allow-empty -m "${forceToken} Update upstream version to ${VERSION}"
+  FORCE_TOKEN=$(echo "${TRAVIS_COMMIT_MESSAGE}" | sed "s|^.*\(\[force[^]]*\]\).*$|\1|g")
+  git commit --allow-empty -m "${FORCE_TOKEN} Update upstream version to ${VERSION}"
   git push
 elif git status --untracked-files=no --porcelain | grep -q '^' ; then
   git commit -m "Update upstream version to ${VERSION}"