update-properties takes a lot of time for some projects

[ljackiewicz]

I wonder if it's intentional when calling update-properties to check the metadata of all defined dependencies if we pass includesList which will end up skipping version updates for most of them?

I invoke something like this:
mvn org.codehaus.mojo:versions-maven-plugin:2.16.2:update-properties -DallowMinorUpdates=false -Dincludes=my.groupId.*,my.other.groupId.*

And for some projects it takes even about 30 minutes to finally update only a few of my own dependencies among the multitude of third-party dependencies that I do not want to update automatically.

[slawekjaranowski]

Which Maven version do you use?

[slawekjaranowski]

A debug log (mvn ... -X) can help to investigate which task take the most time