Hi David, David P. Caldwell wrote:
> The use case is that I have a project (actually, many projects, so I > want to be able to do this in bulk) that are source-controlled and I'd > like to be able to create a modified version of the POM in a temporary > directory and then execute that modified POM, but against the original > base directory without altering the source-controlled POM in my > source-controlled working directory. > > Obviously I could do this by copying the entire source tree and then > running my modified POM, but I'd like to do this without having to > copy every file every time, as these projects are often large and I > want to be able to execute this tool routinely. > > My initial attempt was to set -Dbasedir on the command line, but this > does not appear to have the effect for which I was hoping. > > I can think of several imperfect workarounds, including copying the > entire source directory (expensive), generating a temporary file in > the base directory (make sure not to commit it!), overwriting the POM > (then need to repeatedly refresh from source control to restore the > original), and reading and remembering the POM, overwriting it with > the updated version, running Maven, and then overwriting the updates > with the original (hope the process doesn't crash in a way that > prevents me from restoring the original). I'd probably lean toward the > last but it's more cumbersome and error-prone than I'd like. Is what > I'd like possible? You cannot modify the basedir, i.e your generated POM has to be at same location with a different name. You might select a name pattern that is ignored by your SCM e.g. pom.tmp. As Jeff said, call Maven like mvn -f pom.tmp However, keep in mind that this does not work in multi-project modules, since the modules will always refer the original parent, unless you overwrite the relativePath element (IIRC you can also define a POM file directly). - Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
