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Posted to issues@maven.apache.org by "Chris Erskine (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org> on 2013/10/23 19:06:52 UTC

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

Chris Erskine created MNG-5528:
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             Summary: Help text confuses people
                 Key: MNG-5528
                 URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5528
             Project: Maven 2 & 3
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Command Line
    Affects Versions: 3.1.0
         Environment: any
            Reporter: Chris Erskine
            Priority: Minor


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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