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Versions Maven Plugin
https://www.mojohaus.org/versions/versions-maven-plugin/
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update-properties takes a lot of time for some projects #1076

Open ljackiewicz opened 1 month ago

ljackiewicz commented 1 month ago

I wonder if it's intentional when calling update-properties to check the metadata of all defined dependencies if we pass includesList which will end up skipping version updates for most of them?

I invoke something like this: mvn org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.16.2:update-properties -DallowMinorUpdates=false -Dincludes=my.groupId.*,my.other.groupId.*

And for some projects it takes even about 30 minutes to finally update only a few of my own dependencies among the multitude of third-party dependencies that I do not want to update automatically.

slawekjaranowski commented 1 month ago

Which Maven version do you use?

slawekjaranowski commented 1 month ago

A debug log (mvn ... -X) can help to investigate which task take the most time

ljackiewicz commented 3 weeks ago

I'm using Maven version 3.8.8, but I also tested it on version 3.9.1.

The most time-consuming task is to download maven-metadata.xml files. I download them, like all defined dependencies, through my own Nexus server. Downloading the dependencies itself does not take that much time, but maybe the slow download of maven-metadata.xml files is due to the fact that it is a less frequent operation and the next time the versions plugin is invoked, these files are no longer stored in the Nexus cache.

However, when calling update-properties it seems that maven-metadata.xml files are downloaded for all defined dependencies, not just those defined by includesList.