Hello! Is there a machine-readable way I can find out what the Versions plugin did after I've executed it? I'm writing a CI task that tries to periodically update the dependencies of a project.
Essentially, the task does this: $ mvn clean verify $ mvn -DallowMajorUpdates=false \ versions:use-latest-releases \ versions:update-properties $ mvn clean verify If the second "clean verify" execution succeeds, then we assume that all the new dependency versions are fine. The task then goes on to commit the pom.xml changes. The problem: I'd like to retrieve the list of dependencies that were updated (their previous and current versions) so that I can produce a nice commit message and changelog entry. I can't seem to get this information out of the plugin. I've seen the documentation for the dependency-updates-report goal, so I tried doing this: $ mvn clean verify $ mvn \ -DallowMajorUpdates=false \ -DdependencyUpdatesReportFormats=xml -DoutputDirectory=. \ versions:dependency-updates-report \ versions:use-latest-releases \ versions:update-properties $ mvn clean verify But this just doesn't appear to produce any output. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some better way to do this? -- Mark Raynsford | http://www.io7m.com
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