Hello Apache Maven developers,

I'm looking for an explanation of a behaviour in Maven that I'm still unclear about.

If I type the mvn command without any arguments I get an BUILD FAILURE.

What I consider the better option is printing the usage or help instead. The output I am getting when executing mvn -h.

In my humble opinion, this is a quick fix and a small, yet notable, improvement to usability for command line users.

Something like this in the mvn shell script just before the final exec.

if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
    set -- "-h"
fi

kind regards
Björn


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