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Nils Breunese commented on MNG-5659: ------------------------------------ Currently I use a `.mvn/maven.config` that contains the following: {code} --settings .mvn/settings.xml {code} This works when Maven is run from the project root, but when trying to run Maven in a subdirectory/submodule you'll get this error: {code} [ERROR] Error executing Maven. java.io.FileNotFoundException: The specified user settings file does not exist: /path/to/current/directory/.mvn/settings.xml {code} It would be cool if you could specify a location relative to the project root. Or have a default location for `settings.xml` that would just always be found, regardless of whether you're in a subdirectory or not. > Project specific settings.xml > ----------------------------- > > Key: MNG-5659 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5659 > Project: Maven > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: FDPFC > Reporter: Joachim Van der Auwera > Priority: Major > Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x > > Attachments: mvn.patch > > > It would be useful to have a settings.xml file next to the project pom that > could contain project specific settings. For example, when switching between > projects it is sometimes necessary to also change the location of the local > repository, or use a different set of repositories and/or mirror settings for > each project. > If a settings.xml file could be included with a project checkout, then the > repositories needed for the build could be included (instead of putting them > in the pom) along with any other project specific settings. > The tricky part is intelligently handling multi-module projects. For a > multi-module project I don't want to include a separate settings.xml file for > each directory. So Maven could recursively check each parent directory until > it either (1) finds a settings.xml, (2) finds a directory with no pom.xml, or > (3) finds the root directory. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)