[MNG-5528] Help text confuses people

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.1
• Component/s: Command Line
• Environment: any
• Assignee: Robert Scholte
• Reporter: Chris Erskine
• Created: 23/Oct/13 12:06
• Updated: 06/Jan/22 17:29
• Resolved: 06/Jan/14 16:22

Description

When the 'mvn --help' command is used, the output for -U states "Forces a check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories". This confuses a lot of users into thinking that this option will update released versions of artifacts.

Could this be changed to something like "Forces a check for updated snapshots on remote repositories"

This would solve a number of problems that I have seen at different sites where people think they can patch a finally released artifact and it is updated in the local repository with the -U option.

Updating the help text would then roll into documentation where the text is copied into it.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-4537 --update-snapshots command line option flag is misleading, as it actually updates releases too