mset

Maven Settings cli

Description

Is a simple cli tool that helps to easy save, set and switch the settings.xml file inside the ~/.m2 directory

Usage

you can run mset command in any path

# initialize the catalog
$mset init

# add or save one settings.xml file to the catalog
$mset add projectA settings1.xml

# add another file to the catalog
$mset add projectB settings2.xml

# see what file is currently used
$mset current
projectB

# change to use the settings.xml called projectA
$mset set projectA
added projectA to current

# see all your files stored in the catalog
$mset list
projectB
projectA (current)

Install

• See Makefile to build and then copy the binary to a /bin directory inside $PATH

Commands

mset init Initialize the catalog to store your settings.xml files, this is done under $HOME/.m2/.mset. Also stores the current .m2/settings.xml

mset set <name> Set the <name> as current, this copies settings.xml file related to <name> to ~.m2/settings.xml

mset add <name> <file> Add a new settins.xml file in the catalog

mset current Show the name of the current settings.xml file

mset list List all available setting.xml files in the catalog

remove <name> Remove the settings.xml fiile from the catalog

Notice

• By default the catalog is created in $HOME/.m2/.mset but this can be changed using an EnvVar MSET_CATALOG_PATH
• New entries with add command are stored with a suffix -settings.xml in the catalog
• Name entries added with add must be alphanumerica and with - regexp: (^[a-zA-Z0-9-]*$)
• The command list only sees files with the suffix -settings.xml other are ignored
• Set a new file with set command copies the related settings.xml file to $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
• The default Maven directory is $HOME/.m2/ but this can be changed using an EnvVar MSET_MAVEN_PATH