Maven shade plugin adding dependency-reduced-pom.xml to base directory

Question

The maven shade plugin is creating a file called dependency-reduced-pom.xml and also artifactname-shaded.jar and placing them in the base directory.

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Answer 1

Based on bmargulies' answer and his comment on Xv.'s answer, I decided to configure the dependency-reduced POM to be output to target/, which is already ignored in my VCS.

To do that, I just added the dependencyReducedPomLocation element to the configuration element of the plugin, i.e.

  ${project.build.directory}/dependency-reduced-pom.xml
  (...)