How to get the Maven local repo location?

Question

Is there a way to get the Maven local repo location?

Using the following command you can force Maven to use a specific setting file:

 mvn -s < path to settings file > 

I know you can edit settings.xml file to set a repository location, but can I get the current default value with some Maven command?

Answer 1

If you want just the local repo, try this:

mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository | grep -v '\[INFO\]' 

EDIT

I'm revisiting this after years because recent versions of the Maven help plugin introduced a useful parameter for the evaluate goal called forceStdout that allows us to remove the need to grep the output:

mvn help:evaluate -Dexpression=settings.localRepository -q -DforceStdout 

Answer 2

Yes, you can get it with the -X or --debug option, e.g. mvn -X

... [DEBUG] Reading global settings from C:\Maven\conf\settings.xml [DEBUG] Reading user settings from C:\segphault\.m2\settings.xml [DEBUG] Using local repository at C:\Repo ...