[GitHub] [maven-site] michael-o commented on a change in pull request #246: Adding .mavenrc documentation

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michael-o commented on a change in pull request #246:
URL: https://github.com/apache/maven-site/pull/246#discussion_r668139207



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File path: content/markdown/configure.md
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@@ -80,6 +80,12 @@ Starting with Maven 3.3.1+ you can define JVM configuration via `${maven.project
 
 You don't need to use these options in `MAVEN_OPTS` or switch between different configurations.
 
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+### `.mavenrc` file:
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+Located in USER_HOME/.mavenrc (or %HOME%\mavenrc_pre.bat on windows) this file allows you to define scripts which can set ENV variables and other properties prior to Maven reading the project. This allows users to define variables in either the settings.xml or pom.xml and have them read the property that was dynamically set by the .mavenrc file.

Review comment:
       This is not correct. Read the files:
   https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/1052ec5d871963cd662e7b6a4608cab30a63d79e/apache-maven/src/assembly/shared/validate.cmd#L40-L41
   https://github.com/apache/maven/blob/1052ec5d871963cd662e7b6a4608cab30a63d79e/apache-maven/src/assembly/shared/validate#L36-L38




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