It's normal to copy to the local repository (this happens at the install step), 
but this should always be under the single identifier "SNAPSHOT", rather than 
keeping a copy of each timestamped artifact. I'm not sure why you'd be 
experiencing that.

On 21/03/2010, at 9:57 AM, Viv Kapadekar wrote:

> Hi Brett,
> 
> So, I see the builds now getting copied to the repository specified in 
> distributionManagement and it keeps a copy of all previous builds too, which 
> is great. But it seems to also copy it to my own local repository ( under .m2 
> ). Thats not what I expected. I thought my local repository would  just have 
> the latest artifact and not get piled up with builds everytime I do a mvn 
> deploy. Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --Viv
> On Mar 18, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
> 
>> If you're using the configuration as stated below, each build should use a 
>> timestamp and build number. IT would only overwrite if for some reason you 
>> added <uniqueVersion>false</uniqueVersion> to the repository element.
>> 
>> What does your repository look like?
>> 
>> On 19/03/2010, at 10:45 AM, Viv Kapadekar wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Brett. Currently I had it as 1.0-SNAPSHOT in the parent pom  but not 
>>> in module pom.xml. I made the change  and now its deploying. But every time 
>>> I run mvn deploy, it overwrites the previous snapshot build. How can I get 
>>> a historical builds? I have to generate version numbers dynamically?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> --Viv
>>> On Mar 18, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Brett Porter wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 19/03/2010, at 9:39 AM, Viv Kapadekar wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for your prompt response. I have set up distribtionManagement in 
>>>>> pom.xml like this:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> <distributionManagement>
>>>>> <snapshotRepository>
>>>>>  <id>internal.repo</id>
>>>>>  <name>My local Internal Repository of builds</name>
>>>>>  <url>file:///Users/vivekkapadekar/workspace/deploy/</url>
>>>>> </snapshotRepository>
>>>>> </distributionManagement>
>>>> 
>>>> Note that at some point you'll need <repository> for your release as well 
>>>> (even if it is the same). If the <version> being deployed does not end in 
>>>> -SNAPSHOT this would be the problem.
>>>> 
>>>> Otherwise, what version of Maven are you using?
>>>> 
>>>> - Brett
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Brett Porter
>>>> [email protected]
>>>> http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Viv Kapadekar
>>> [email protected]
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Brett Porter
>> [email protected]
>> http://brettporter.wordpress.com/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Viv Kapadekar
> [email protected]
> 
> 
> 

--
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http://brettporter.wordpress.com/




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