[MDEP-660] Obsolete example of -Dverbose on web page

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Done
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.1.3
• Component/s: tree
• Labels: documentation
• Environment: Web - Chrome
• Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise
• Reporter: Larry West
• Created: 22/Aug/19 00:28
• Updated: 12/Apr/21 10:52
• Resolved: 01/May/20 18:02

Description

The examples/resolving-conflicts-using-the-dependency-tree page offers hope that John Lin has worked on MDEP-644:

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Resolving conflicts using the dependency tree

A project's dependency tree can be expanded to display dependency conflicts. For example, to find out why Commons Collections 2.0 is being used by the Maven Dependency Plugin, we can execute the following in the project's directory:
  # mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose -Dincludes=commons-collections
The verbose flag instructs the dependency tree to display conflicting dependencies that were omitted from the resolved dependency tree. In this case, the goal outputs:

... 

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Alas, it is not so, as MDEP-374 explains.

That page should perhaps be deleted.

Issue Links

• relates to: MDEP-671 Unsupported verbose option still appears in docs