Maven plugin showing which of your complex project dependencies were changed in VCS
- Checkout http://vcs/wds/projects/maven-plugins/trunk/branching-plugin/
- mvn clean install
- Add the following to your MAVEN_HOME/settings.xml
<pluginGroup>com.macys.buildtools.maven.plugin</pluginGroup> - Change working directory to one which has pom.xml which you want to know all dependencies and their change status
- If necessary add SCM information to your pom.xml () see for details http://maven.apache.org/maven-release/maven-release-plugin/usage.html
- Type one of the following:
- mvn branching:changed
- mvn branching:changed [-DnumberDaysToCheck=n], where n defines the number days before the current time. This parameter limits the period which VCS commit is checked against. Default value is 30
- Ignore printed logs - there will be no somthing interesting.
- File with resulted info will be placed in the current directory and has name "<MODULE_NAME>.tree". Please note that if you have projects with several modules (reactor project) - the report file will be created for each of them
- In file you can see dependency tree with name of artifacts along with its version in brackets. Each node name line is followed by:
- an error, if something went wrong
- nothing, if there were no changes for defined period
- Author, date, comment, revision information of the latest commit for defined period of time.
- It uses dependency tree builder from maven dependency plugin
- For each artifact in this tree it creates maven project in-memory.
- The project information can be located from local pom.xml located on file system or from m2 repo otherwise.
- Plugin tries to find info in each project. Parent pom.xml is considered.
- It uses SCM maven provider to get list of SCM changes for specified period by connection defined on the previous step.
- It appends the latest commit to the output file. Please note that you have to set correct scm information in order this plugin can tell information about changes.