Can I add maven repositories in the command line?

Question

I\'m aware I can add maven repositories for fetching dependencies in ~/.m2/settings.xml. But is it possible to add a repository using command line, something like:

Answer 1

I am not sure if you can do it using the command line. You can on the other hand add repositories in the pom.xml as in the following example. Using this approach you do not need to change the ~/.m2/settings.xml file.

    
    
    ...
    
            
                MavenCentral
                Maven repository
                http://repo1.maven.org/maven2
                
                    true
                
                
                    false
                
            
...
            
                Codehaus Snapshots
                http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/
                
                    true
                
                
                    false
                
            
        

    ...

        
            
                apache.snapshots
                Apache Snapshot Repository
                
                    http://people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository
                
                
                    false
                
            
            
                Codehaus Snapshots
                http://snapshots.repository.codehaus.org/
                
                    true
                
                
                    false
                
            
        

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