Chris Erskine created MNG-5528:
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Summary: Help text confuses people
Key: MNG-5528
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5528
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Command Line
Affects Versions: 3.1.0
Environment: any
Reporter: Chris Erskine
Priority: Minor
When the 'mvn --help' command is used, the output for -U states "Forces a
check for updated releases and snapshots on remote repositories". This
confuses a lot of users into thinking that this option will update released
versions of artifacts.
Could this be changed to something like "Forces a check for updated snapshots
on remote repositories"
This would solve a number of problems that I have seen at different sites where
people think they can patch a finally released artifact and it is updated in
the local repository with the -U option.
Updating the help text would then roll into documentation where the text is
copied into it.
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