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commit 78ff77ce35aa13f4263b60116aaabbbdaf0f5bd8
Author: Benjamin Marwell <bm...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Mon Dec 12 14:07:01 2022 +0100

    [MWRAPPER-85]_mention_distributionType
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 src/site/markdown/index.md | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/site/markdown/index.md b/src/site/markdown/index.md
index 0eb5175..a950246 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/index.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/index.md
@@ -94,14 +94,25 @@ binary file `.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.jar`. It is used to bootstrap the
 download and invocation of Maven from the wrapper shell scripts.
 
 If your project is not allowed to contain binary files like this, you can
-configure your version control system to exclude checkin/commit of the wrapper
-jar.
+use the source distribution of the maven wrapper which adds a file
+`.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java` file instead:
+
+```shell
+# defaults to bin
+mvn wrapper:wrapper -DdistributionType=script 
+```
+
+You can also chose to opt out of all additional resources except the wrapper scripts:
+
+```shell
+mvn wrapper:wrapper -DdistributionType=script
+```
 
 If the JAR is not found to be available by the scripts they will attempt to
 download the file from the URL specified in
 `.mvn/wrapper/maven-wrapper.properties` under `wrapperUrl` and put it in place.
 The download is attempted via curl, wget and, as last resort, by compiling the
-`./mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java` file and executing the resulting
+`.mvn/wrapper/MavenWrapperDownloader.java` file and executing the resulting
 class.
 
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