[MNG-5085] Add a CLI option to ignore missing modules

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: Reactor and Workspace
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephan Pauxberger
• Created: 02/May/11 04:22
• Updated: 13/Nov/12 17:47
• Resolved: 13/Nov/12 17:47

Description

Using SVN for a rather big project, we tend to use SVN sparse checkouts, i.e. we do not checkout the whole project. Example:

Full Project (as in Repository):
Parent
pom.xml (contains A and B as modules)
--> A
pom.xml
--> B
pom.xml

Now, do a checkout (svn co xxx --depth children; svn update --set-depth inifity A)

Working Copy:
Parent
pom.xml (contains A and B as modules)
--> A
pom.xml
--> B (no pom!!, since we only did a sparse checkout)

Now, this setup is not buildable, since maven complains (rightfully) about a missing pom for B.

What I propose is an option to change this behaviour with a command-line option (-imm, --ignore-missing-modules) that would simply ignore missing modules during pom resolution.

Issue Links

• relates to: MNG-5230 Command line option to exclude modules from reactor