How to update the maven version without pom backup files

maven, versions-maven-plugin

Solution

To prevent creating backup files, use `generateBackupPoms` instead:

`mvn versions:set -DgenerateBackupPoms=false -DnewVersion=3.9.0-SNAPSHOT`

I also saw that you can set up generateBackupPoms in the plugin section of a pom.xml if you want to do it that way.

Note if you are using eclipse, you can run the command using a run configuration like this:

See also: http://www.mojohaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/set-mojo.html

Problem

How do you run maven with the versions plugin to update the version inside several pom.xml files and not get the annoying `pom.xml.versionsBackup` files? (I have my poms in version control, so I don't need a backup). I run this command to update the version: `mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=3.8.0-SNAPSHOT`

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