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If you find yourself wishing you could support multiple maven repositories on a single development box:

to separate work for different clients
to separate work from personal development, or
for managing branches with clashing version numbers

the good news is you can easily start using different maven repositories on a single box by using the "-s" or "--settings" option.

For example:
alias my-mvn="mvn -s ~/.m2/my-settings.xml"

Then in the my-settings.xml I specify the localRepository:

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&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;settings xmlns=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0&quot;<br />
          xmlns:xsi=&quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&quot;<br />
          xsi:schemaLocation=&quot;http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd&quot;&gt;<br />
  &lt;localRepository&gt;/path/to/homedir/.m2/my-repository&lt;/localRepository&gt;<br />
  &lt;interactiveMode&gt;true&lt;/interactiveMode&gt;<br />
  &lt;offline&gt;false&lt;/offline&gt;</p>
<p>&lt;/settings&gt;<br />

Et voila! Seamless builds for my-mvn ending up in a separate repository.

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