title: What is the purpose of adding scm information to a maven pom?
body: <p>I understand why you would want to add archive information to a pom. But why SCM info? Is it possible to materialize a project completely from a pom?</p>
  
  <p>The way I've always stored maven projects in svn, is I add everything (including the eclipse project, maven pom), to a repository. Any time I make a change to anything (including the pom), I do a SVN commit.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to perform SVN operations directly through maven? Is this a best practice?</p>