What does purge-local-repository actually purge?

Question

I am running the following command from within a maven project directory:

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository

What is the expected behavior?<

Answer 1

Using same purge but in details, If project A and project B (Jar) build on local and Project A depends on B (which is in local Repo) can be resolved like

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -Dinclude=com.xxxx.projectB:projectB

and add the dependency in Project A will resolve the issue.

                com.xxxx.projectB
                projectB
                ${project.version}
            

Hope this helps,