Copyright © 2011 Ejwa Software. All rights reserved. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the accompanying license.txt and license-lgpl.txt files for further details. For questions regarding maven-gitdep-plugin you can contact the current maintainer in charge at maven-gitdep-plugin@ejwa.se. usage: in pom file you would list dependency like this: <dependency> <groupId>jr9999</groupId> <artifactId>github_module1</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> build plugin entry like this: <plugin> <groupId>com.ejwa</groupId> <artifactId>maven-gitdep-plugin</artifactId> <version>0.1</version> <configuration> <gitDependencies> <gitDependency> <groupId>jr9999</groupId> <artifactId>github_module1</artifactId> <location>https://github.com/jr9999/github_module1.git</location> <branch>master</branch> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <reinstall>true</reinstall> </gitDependency> </gitDependencies> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>clean-gitdep-exec</id> <phase>clean</phase> <goals> <goal>cleanup</goal> </goals> </execution> <execution> <id>compile-gitdep-exec</id> <phase>compile</phase> <goals> <goal>prepare</goal> <goal>download</goal> <goal>install</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> all goals: install, cleanup, download, prepare