Maven Command Line Options

Internal

• Maven

-U, --update-snapshots

Forces a check for missing releases and updated snapshots on remote repositories.

-s, --settings

Alternate path for the user settings file.

--encrypt-password

Note that settings-security.xml must exist when using this command, otherwise we get:

mvn --encrypt-password something
[ERROR] Error executing Maven.
[ERROR] java.io.FileNotFoundException: /Users/ovidiu/.m2/settings-security.xml (No such file or directory)
[ERROR] Caused by: /Users/ovidiu/.m2/settings-security.xml (No such file or directory)