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• 'ant update_configs' ==> Moves existing configs in [dspace]/config/ to *.old files and replaces them with what is in [dspace-srcsource]/dspace/config/

• 'ant -Doverwrite=false update_configs' ==> Leaves existing configs in [dspace]/config/ intact. Just copies new configs from
  [dspace-srcsource]/dspace/config/ over to *.new files.

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The primary way of configuring DSpace is to edit the dspace.cfg, however, the [dspace-srcsource]/build.properties file exists to provide an easy means of configuring a subset of properties. Typically this would be done to allow different developers to maintain their own build.properties files outwith [dspace-srcsourcc]. Each developer would need to edit [dspace-srcsource]/pom.xml to reference their own build.properties file. Any common changes could be applied directly to dspace.cfg.

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