Maven - Parent Pom - Child Inheritance

Question

I am attempting to make a maven parent pom setup where I don\'t have to declare any plugin information in my child pom, everything is taken from the parent pom.

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Answer 1

section is intended to configure project builds that inherit from this one. However, this only configures plugins that are actually referenced within the plugins element in the children (so you have to explicitly specify them, as you indicated). See more here.

If you want to avoid this, you can put this information into section like this:

  
    
      org.apache.maven.plugins
      maven-scm-plugin
      1.0
      
        <...>
      
      
        <...>