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From: Jason Dillon <jason@planet57.com>
Subject: Re: OMG... mvn -X spits out soooooo much junk
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:01:31 -0700
To: "Maven Developers List" <dev@maven.apache.org>
Sender: Jason Dillon <jason.dillon@gmail.com>

Oh, ya... it works, I got distracted by my rant.  Latest snapshot  
looks okay to me.

--jason


On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Brian E. Fox wrote:

> Looks like enforcer worked :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Dillon [mailto:jason.dillon@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jason
> Dillon
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:49 PM
> To: Maven Developers List
> Subject: OMG... mvn -X spits out soooooo much junk
>
> I think its time for a --debug and --trace option to mvn... as mvn -X
> by itself spits out sooo much output that it is almost unusable.
> Certainly to get more information out of plugins that are executing
> its provides *way, way* to much information.
>
> For example, running `mvn -X -N` from the geronimo/server/trunk
> build, its spits out ~2500 lines.
>
> I'd really like to see the logging output in Maven have some finer
> controls.  *most* of the time I just want debugging information from
> my plugins, including a brief overview of the artifact they came
> from, the arguments to the mojo and then the mojos log.debug() output.
>
> I don't care much the full tree of maven artifacts and all that other
> muck for most times I want to see debug information.
>
> I really think that mvn should have better cli configuration of the
> debug and warning levels which are enabled.
>
> Very simlar to how CC has the -W flag to enable sets of warnings, I
> think that mvn needs a flag to enable sets of warning and debug
> information.
>
> For example, this might show all the gory detail about artifacts:
>
>      mvn --debug=artifacts
>
> Where this would only show the plugin invokation details:
>
>      mvn --debug=plugin
>
> And default to the minimal:
>
>      mvn --debug
>
> ^^^ is the same as mvn --debug=plugin
>
>   * * *
>
> For those interested, the full ~2500 lines of mvn -X -N for sever/
> trunk are here:
>
>      http://rifers.org/paste/jdillon/show/4223
>
> This is a big project... but I don't really need all of that output
> when I'm trying to debug plugin executions.  Today I just wanted to
> make sure that the maven-enforcer-plugin was still working after the
> snapshot, since it now logs details to DEBUG instead of INFO.  And I
> was appalled when I ran `mvn -X -N` from the top-level and go so much
> junk.
>
> I really would like to see this fixed... it would really help people
> to debug mvn issues.  Sure there are times when you need the full
> output, maybe from `mvn --debug=all` but 90% of the time all that
> extra information just makes it hard to find the information you do
> care about.
>
> Please can we address this problem?
>
> --jason
>
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