Gregor B. Rosenauer created MNG-6060:
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Summary: better and precise error reporting when project is not
found e.g. with -rf option
Key: MNG-6060
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-6060
Project: Maven
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Command Line, Errors, POM, Reactor and workspace
Affects Versions: 3.3.9
Environment: Linux 4.6.2 with Oracle JDK 8
Reporter: Gregor B. Rosenauer
Priority: Trivial
when building a multi-module project with -rf and the project is not found,
Maven explodes all over your face and prints the *entire* POM instead of just
pointing out the missing project - it does, but hides it before the POM dump so
the info is easily lost:
{{[ERROR] [ERROR] Could not find project to resume reactor build from:
:missing-in-action vs [MavenProject: (entire POM dumped here)}}
Good old make would just tell you this precise and helpful message, instead of
dumping the entire makefile:
{{make: *** No rule to make target 'some-nonexisting-target'. Stop.}}
Please make maven a bit more user friendly when reporting errors...
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