Sharing the same settings.xml maven configuration for the whole team

We have a very big maven configuration with very many repositories, plugin repositories, and various other things.

We always end up having to manually copy/paste the same file to other team members, and then replace the username and password.

I was curious if anyone is aware of an automated solution for sharing the settings.xml file ?

Something that will pull the configuration or part of the configuration from git ?

If I had to write it myself I would probably use a script and git, to pull changes, do replacements, and replace the current settings file.

But it's better to see if someone has already made this.

We also have a different proxy username and password for each user. We use both nexus, and also a proxy.

Solution

Tomtit is good with that type of tasks, just include this small helper into your scm:

.tom/mvn-settings.pl6

#!perl6

my $user = prompt "username ";
my $password = prompt "password ";

directory '/tmp/mvn';

# load settings template from other repository

git-scm 'https://scm/repo/mvn-files', %( to => '/tmp/mvn' );

template-create 'settings.xml', %(
  source => ( slurp '/tmp/mvn/settings.tmpl' ),
  mode => '644',
  variables => %(
    user => $user,
    password => $password
  ),
);

The run it:

tom mvn-settings