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cfarley4
cfarley4

Reputation: 91

Delete artifacts and their entire directory from maven local repository

I am trying to delete old artifacts and the directory they live in from my .m2/repository directory. For example I have several versions of projectA: 4.7.0.222, 4.7.0.223, 4.7.0.224 etc. I only need to keep 4.7.0.224 project since it is the latest build.

How can I remove the older 2 versions 4.7.0.222 and 4.7.0.223 without manually deleting them? I have tried this command: 

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=false -DactTransitively=false -Dverbose=true

When I was in those project directories, everything was successful, but the items still remained. Does maven have any commands that are similar to a full linux "rm -rf" or No?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2484

Answers (1)

barthel
barthel

Reputation: 950

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/usage.html#The_dependency:purge-local-repository_mojo

dependency:purge-local-repository

[...]

This goal is meant to delete all of the dependencies for the current project (or projects, in the case of a multimodule build) from the local repository.

[...]

https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/examples/purging-local-repository.html#Other_purge_configuration

[...]

To purge all the dependencies of a given groupId, use the resolutionFuzziness configuration parameter.

If neither includes nor excludes are specified, all the dependencies of the current project are purged.

[...]

  • file - Delete just the artifact's file.
  • version - Delete the version directory containing this artifact.
  • artifactId - Delete the artifactId directory containing this artifact.
  • groupId - Delete the groupId directory structure containing this artifact.

To add the restriction that the [...] artifact not be deleted, add the exclude parameter as a comma-delimited list of groupId:artifactId pairs.

Upvotes: 1

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