MAVEN deploy snapshot package replace the SNAPSHOT in path, not package name, with timestamp

Question

I am using mvn deplouy:deploy-file to deploy local SNAPSHOT package to remote repository. However, the upload repository path replace the version SNAPSHOT with timestamp.

I was use this:

mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=com.zhouyi.classifier -DartifactId=devcloud -Dversion=2.2.3SNAPSHOT -Dclassifier=source -Dpackaging=jar -DrepositoryId=snapshots -Dfile=filepath\antlr\antlr\2.7.2\antlr-2.7.2.jar -Durl=http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/

For example:

Uploading: http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/zhouyi/classifier/devcloud/2.2.320181207.014307-3/devcloud-2.2.320181207.014307-3-source.jar Uploaded: http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/zhouyi/classifier/devcloud/2.2.320181207.014307-3/devcloud-2.2.320181207.014307-3-source.jar (748 kB at 3.8 MB/s) Uploading: http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/zhouyi/classifier/devcloud/2.2.320181207.014307-3/devcloud-2.2.320181207.014307-3.pom Uploaded: http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/zhouyi/classifier/devcloud/2.2.320181207.014307-3/devcloud-2.2.320181207.014307-3.pom (410 B at 4.1 kB/s)
Downloading: http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/com/zhouyi/classifier/devcloud/maven-metadata.xml

Maven Version is: Apache Maven 3.5.4 (1edded0938998edf8bf061f1ceb3cfdeccf443fe; 2018-06-18T02:33:14+08:00)

Settings file:

<profile>
            <id>MyProfile</id>
            <repositories>
                <repository>
                    <id>releases</id>
                    <url>http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/release/</url> 
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </repository>
                <repository>
                    <id>snapshots</id>
                    <url>http://address:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>                    
                    <releases>
                        <enabled>false</enabled>
                    </releases>
                    <snapshots>
                        <enabled>true</enabled>
                    </snapshots>
                </repository>
            </repositories>
        </profile>

J Fabian Meier J Fabian Meier · Accepted Answer · 2018-12-07T07:33:32

This is the correct behaviour. The suffix SNAPSHOT is replaced by a timestamp when you upload the artifact to a repository.

You do not need to worry about it. You actually won't notice it in Maven because every dependency on 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT will be resolved against the latest timestamp version.

It is only interesting if you want to reference a specific timestamp version. Then you can put that version into your pom.xml. But this normally not recommended.

MAVEN deploy snapshot package replace the SNAPSHOT in path, not package name, with timestamp

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