Override maven.clover.historyDir not working

[RadosławA]

I have a historyDir defined in my pom.xml, however I have two bamboo plans doing different things. I would like to use a different history point storages for them. I tried adding -Dmaven.clover.historyDir=/some/other/path to the build command but it doesn't work. Am I missing something?

[Marek Parfianowicz · Accepted solution]

Then answer is - yes, it's possible to override setting from pom.xml.

However, the maven.clover.historyDir shall be declared as a property (with some default value) and referred in the "<configuration><historyDir>" tag.

The following code snippet works:

<properties>
  <maven.clover.historyDir>/default/dir</maven.clover.historyDir>
</properties>
	
<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>com.atlassian.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-clover2-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>3.1.11</version>
      <configuration>
        <historyDir>${maven.clover.historyDir}</historyDir>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

TIP: you can use help:effective-pom to see how Maven resolves properties.

mvn help:effective-pom
mvn -Dmaven.clover.historyDir=/another/dir help:effective-pom