jira-importer commented on issue #430: URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-apache-parent/issues/430#issuecomment-2771723127
**[Herve Boutemy](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=hboutemy)** commented this time, it's me who is not clear and have to explain better :) we have 2 XML snippets: parent XML snippet (from parent POM) and child XML snippet (from child POM) `combine.self` and `combine.children` from child snippet is used to choose how child XML snippet will be merged into parent XML snippet parent XML snippet has no control on how child XML snippets will want to merge: 2 child XML snippets can decide to merge in different ways see Xpp3Dom class in http://maven.apache.org/shared/maven-shared-utils/ for code and unit tests in our precise case, specifying `combine.children="append"` in ASF parent POM means that we want to merge XML with ASF'parent parent POM: there is no ASF parent parent, then this configuration won't do anything (it won't really harm either) -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
