scm:checkout question

[Daniel King]

How can you checkout a fresh copy of a project without a pom.xml or is
this impossible? I'm assuming it is impossible just like ant needs a
build.xml.  However how do most people checkout a project without the
pom.xml the first time? If I copy the pom.xml and put it in my directory
and then call mvn scm:bootstrap it will checkout my code, compile, run
tests and install since I have a goal of install in the configuration. 

 

   <build>

    <plugins>

      <plugin>

        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>

        <artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId>

        <configuration>

          <connectionType>connection</connectionType>

          <goals>install</goals>

        </configuration>

      </plugin>

    </plugins>

  </build>

 

The reason I ask is because our build team deletes the project area at
the beginning of every build.

 

Also is scm:bootstrap the best way to checkout, compile, run tests and
install? I might need to change that goal to deploy since the build team
wants to do all those steps and then put it in our internal repo.

 

Thanks,

Daniel King