What is Maven dependency:purge-local-repository supposed to do? - Stack Overflow

What is Maven dependency:purge-local-repository supposed to do? - Stack Overflow

I'm trying to purge the local repository of a project dependency before launching releasing it in order to make sure every dependency required is on the central repository and is downloaded from it.

In the project folder (containing the pom.xml), I launch the following command:

mvn clean dependency:purge-local-repository -DreResolve=false -Dverbose=true  

The project's POM is very simple and just have a declared dependency to junit:junit:3.8.1

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