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Robert Balazsi commented on MNG-5258:
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It works with ${user.home}, and it is pointless indeed to define with its
default value.
However, I think it would be nice to support "~" (or %HOMEPATH%) in case
somebody wants to create a private repository somewhere in his/her home
directory.
> localRepository in settings.xml does not handle ~ as home.dir
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>
> Key: MNG-5258
> URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-5258
> Project: Maven 2 & 3
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Bootstrap & Build, Settings
> Affects Versions: 2.2.1, 3.0.4
> Environment: Linux (Ubuntu 11.10), Java 6
> Reporter: Thomas Zeeman
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> My provided settings.xml contained a localRepository part with the value
> ~/.m2/repository and when invoking any maven command, this caused issues.
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1 - create a settings.xml with the following content:
> <settings>
> <!-- localRepository
> | The path to the local repository maven will use to store artifacts.
> |
> | Default: ~/.m2/repository -->
> <localRepository>~/.m2/repository</localRepository>
> </settings>
> 2 - run mvn clean in an existing project
> 3 - maven will create a ~ directory in the project where it will download all
> artifacts to.
> Apart from essentially creating a private repository for each project (which
> can quickly take up way more space than necessary, cause issues about missing
> artifacts) it may also cause issues if you try to remove it and forget to
> escape the ~; ie if you do rm -rf ~ instead of rm -rf '~'.
> I also tested with maven 2.2.1 and that will blow up with errors about not
> being able to create /.m2/repository/<some path to an artifact>.
> Both 3.0.4 and 2.2.1 were downloaded from maven.apache.org, not installed via
> apt/dpkg.
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