Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Description
The default contents of Maven's settings.xml configuration file start with the following comment:
<!--
| This is the configuration file for Maven. It can be specified at two levels:
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| 1. User Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for a single user,
| and is normally provided in ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml.
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| NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
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| -s /path/to/user/settings.xml
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| 2. Global Level. This settings.xml file provides configuration for all Maven
| users on a machine (assuming they're all using the same Maven
| installation). It's normally provided in
| ${maven.conf}/settings.xml.
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| NOTE: This location can be overridden with the CLI option:
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| -gs /path/to/global/settings.xml
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| The sections in this sample file are intended to give you a running start at
| getting the most out of your Maven installation. Where appropriate, the default
| values (values used when the setting is not specified) are provided.
|
|–>
This description is confusing or even misleading in several respects, notably because Maven can have more than 1 configuration file. The attached patch offers fixes/clarifications for these.