How to do remove a projects artifacts from the local maven repo?

Question

When running mvn install on a local multi module project it builds and install the projects artifacts into the local repo. mvn clean seems to clean

Answer 1

You can purge artifacts from your local repository, but why do you like to do this? Apart from that you can do that via maven-dependency-plugin:

This will purge all project- and dependency artifacts

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=false

This can be influenced by supplemental command line arguments (see the documentation) for further details.