[MNG-7036] Avoid non-compile goals (e.g., test) for --also-make introduced modules

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Volkan Yazici
• Created: 26/Nov/20 11:00
• Updated: 26/Nov/20 11:03

Description

It is a common practice to execute goals for a single module, e.g., mvn -pl son verify. Though if there exists a dependency to another module, one needs to provide the extra -am (--also-make) flag, which repeats the requested goal for the dependency modules too. This is not a desirable behavior in many circumstances. For instance, consider: mvn -am -pl son verify. Here it is highly likely that the user only wants to verify son, not its dependencies.

I would really appreciate an extra configuration property to avoid executing non-compile goals on dependencies introduced by --also-make.