How to stop Maven/Artifactory from keeping Snapshots with timestamps

Question

Due to disk space considerations I\'d like to only ever keep one version of any snapshot in my repository. Rather than keeping multiple versions with timestamp suffixes

Answer 1

The simplest (and recommended) way is to use non-unique snapshots. If you must use unique snapshots, you can do this in Artifactory by specifying the property on the definition in artifactory.config.xml

For example:

  snapshots
  false
  false
  true
  1
  **/*
  non-unique

For reference you can do this in Nexus (via the UI) by setting up a scheduled service, it allows you to specify the minimum number to retain, the maximum period to retain them for, and whether to remove the snapshot if a release version is deployed.