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Mark commented on MNG-3655: --------------------------- Yes, that would be great. Would improve repeatability of builds and eliminate re-downloading of artifacts where repeatability is an issue and there is no artifact cache/proxy/daemon. > Allow multiple local repositories > --------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-3655 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3655 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Ittay Dror > Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 3.x > > > In some environments, branches are rarely used. This means that if a > developer wishes to work in parallel on two features, he checks out HEAD into > two different locations. The problem is that using 'mvn install' in one > checkout will overwrite the result of 'mvn install' in another. Of course one > can write poms so that the version contains some classifier and then use 'mvn > -Dartifact-classifier=first-checkout install', or, read from a file. Both are > tedious. > Instead, it would be good to be able to tell maven to first consider some > path under the checkout before trying a global local repository (for external > artifacts). > To make this work when running mvn from a module subdir, maybe allow to write > settings.xml in the root directory of the checkout. Then, maven should climb > the directory structure until locating settings.xml (or reaching the global > root directory) and read there. Using settings.xml in such a way has other > benefits that it can be under version control. settings.xml will then be able > to specify a list of local repositories, some absolute paths, some relative > to it. > Another approach could be to allow this list of local repositories in the > global settings.xml file and have an entry in each module's pom indicating > where it is relative to the local repository (like the parent path attribute) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira