Cleaning a maven repo
Just saw the size of my local maven repo… and it isn’t nice
So, I’m wondering, is there a maven goal that cleans up ‘obsolete’ files? I want files like old snapshot jars deleted … cause, if you depend on SNAPSHOT versions of projects that update often, you do end up with LOTS of them!
I wouldnt want to delete 1.5GB that easily : )
I guess I was just looking for something like
mvn clean:redundant-snapshots
rm -rf ~/.m2/repository
I’ve done that a few times and it always recovers (after downloading a shitload of jars of course..).
but you know how maven is….maybe it’ll feel bitchy the day you do it and not recover for some reason.