Maven: How do I activate a profile from command line?

Question

This is a snippet from my pom.xml. I tried the following, but the profile was not activated.

mvn clean install -Pdev1
mvn clean install -P dev1

Answer 1

Just remove activation section, I don't know why -Pdev1 doesn't override default false activation. But if you omit this:

false

then your profile will be activated only after explicit declaration as -Pdev1