Cleaning Maven m2e .cache directory
问题 My Maven installation (Windows 7 64-bit) has a .cache directory that is almost 3.5GB! It contains only a m2e directory. (I'm running Eclipse 4.3M7 with m2e.) Surely all the things inside aren't needed at present, and moreover I don't even know what this stuff is! I could find no Maven documentation of a .cache directory online. So what are the .m2/repository/.cache and .m2/repository/.cache/m2e directories? Why do they have so much stuff from years ago? How do I dispose of all the stuff that