It does need more publicity. I’ve been walking through some features that have 
been produced over the years that are highly useful and not very well known. I 
actually chatted with Igor about one yesterday.

Barrie, I don’t think you’ve wasted your time as trying to get things working 
on the command line and in M2Eclipse is always a challenge. But are you 
primarily wanting to have this be an IDE feature? There’s a bunch of code in 
M2Eclipse and I have a small plugin that takes a list of projects and 
materializes them in the workspace. It’s my own hack that I have used for years 
to setup my workspaces easily. Think of it as a very unsophisticated version of 
Oomph. I borrowed bits and pieces from the Sonatype onboarding code from many 
years ago. I’m happy to give you access if you want to take a look, but it is a 
massive hack which is why it’s not public. I think Igor has some code lying 
around too that does almost exactly what you want :-)

I really encourage you to jump in IRC as I much prefer chatting there then over 
mailing lists. And I will honestly forget this conversation in 48 hours if you 
don’t remind me :-)

> On Sep 11, 2015, at 3:25 AM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 September 2015 at 15:37, Anton Tanasenko <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> Hi,
> Select any number of entries under Maven Dependencies node in Project/Package 
> Explorer, right click - Maven - Import projects from scm.
> It requires corresponding maven scm connectors to be installed 
> (m2eclipse-egit for git projects) and it basically checks selected 
> dependencies out and shows you the usual maven project import dialog with 
> checked out projects already filled in.
> It doesn't update any poms though.
> 
> 
> From the two options:
> * Materialize Maven Binary Project seems to setup a Project from the binary's 
> pom, I can't work out how to promote that to a source.
> 
> * Import Proejct(s) from SCM gives me the Import Maven Projects wizard with 
> the selected artifact, and clicking on Finish then brings up the Import Maven 
> Projects wizard - which I can't complete because the project hasn't been 
> checked out.
> 
> But I'll have a look at what the source is doing.
> 
> I could have saved two weeks hacking this as a Mojo if I'd known it was 
> already in M2Eclipse.
> It needs more publicity.
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Thanks,

Jason

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