[jira] [Commented] (MNG-5528) Help text confuses people

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Hudson commented on MNG-5528:
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> Help text confuses people
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-5528
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5528
>             Project: Maven
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Command Line
>    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
>         Environment: any
>            Reporter: Chris Erskine
>            Assignee: Robert Scholte
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: issues to be reviewed for 3.0.6, 3.2.1
>
>
> 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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