What is this tool?

The Maven repository cleaner (bash script), which keeps only the latest versions of artifacts.

This is a fork from alitokmen/maven-repository-cleaner.

How does this tool work?

The bash maven-repository-cleaner.sh script

• verifies if the chosen directory is the root of the maven repository
• has the function, cleanDirectory, which is a recursive function looping through the ~/.m2/repository/ and does the following:
  • When the subdirectory is not a version number, it digs into that subdirectory for analysis
  • When a directory has subdirectories which appear to be version numbers, it only deletes all lower versions
• shows the used amount of diskspace before and after the clean up

In practice, if you have a hierarchy such as:

• artifact-group
  • artifact-name
    • 1.8
    • 1.10
    • 1.2

the maven-repository-cleaner.sh script will:

1. Navigate to artifact-group
2. In artifact-group, navigate to artifact-name
3. In artifact-name, delete the subfolders 1.8 and 1.2, as 1.10 is superior to both 1.2 and 1.8

How do I run this tool in my CI/CD environment?

Just use the below three lines, either at the beginning or at the end of the build:

Commandline

Dry Run

cd <maven-repository>
./maven-repository-cleaner.sh

Real Execution

cd <maven-repository>
./maven-repository-cleaner.sh -y

Script Integration

cd <maven-repository>
wget -S -N https://raw.githubusercontent.com/the-oglow/maven-repository-cleaner/1.00.00/maven-repository-cleaner.sh
chmod +x maven-repository-cleaner.sh
./maven-repository-cleaner.sh -y

Does the tool have limitations?

Only ONE limitation:

1. The tool believes, for example, that the version 1.1 is older than the version 1.1-alpha-2

What is the license?

This forked tool is still licensed under the MIT License.

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Quality Information

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Test Information

NOTE: No tests in this project!