maven - What exactly happens during this command: mvn -pl <project list >

Question

What exactly happens during this command:

mvn -pl ABC  –am  -amd?

Does it compile the code?

The reason I asked is I have purposely put an invalid file and when I run mvn -pl ABC -am -amd option I get successful result and I'm confused why Maven is not complaining about the errored file?

But if I use mvn install command it errors!

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4588956/what-exactly-happens-during-this-command-mvn-pl-project-list

Answer 1

-pl or --projects allows you to select a specific set of projects to apply your goal, (e.g. clean install) this way saving the time you would spend waiting for a full build on a big project if you just need to build a couple modules.

You might wanna check this on the Maven reference.