What is the difference between mvn pre-clean / clean / post-clean?

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what is the difference between these 3 commands: mvn pre-clean / clean / post-clean? Pre and post are unusual to be used. We go straight forward with mvn clean but why?

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J Fabian Meier On BEST ANSWER

In the default lifecycle bindings, pre-clean and post-clean are empty phases. So calling pre-clean will do nothing and calling post-clean will be the same as clean.

You could, of course, bind goals to theses phases and then use them.