title: How to manage maven sub projects not in the same directory structure?
body: <p>I have a few maven projects which share some common settings - repositories, plugins and common dependencies, from the parent pom.xml.</p>
  
  <p>I want to move the child projects now to separate svn location, so that they can have their own life cycle , of tags, branches and trunk. But if I move the subprojects from the directory structure, I will have to rewrite the entire common pom.xml in all the projects.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way of handling this, so that the sub projects can still share a common parent pom.xml without residing next to each other (as folders). </p>