Describe the bug

When I opened a Maven project, it would look for pom.xml and download dependencies to my machine local repository which normally is ${user.home}/.m2/repository. But when I change the local repository to ${maven.home}/repositories in the setting.xml VSCode would create a folder called ${maven.home} in the working directory then put all dependencies inside it instead of the real ${maven.home}

To Reproduce

1. Download maven from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
2. Extract and set its binary folder to the PATH environment variable
3. At the downloaded folder, go to conf/settings.xml
4. Add this piece into the setting tag
   <localRepository>${maven.home}/repositories</localRepository>
5. Open the VSCode setting page and set the global maven setting to the editted settings.xml above
6. Open any maven project and see the result

Expected behavior

VSCode would install dependencies in the real ${maven.home}/repositories directory

Environments

• Edition Windows 10 Pro
• Version 21H1
• Installed on ‎2021-‎05-‎27
• OS build 19043.1110
• Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3530.0
• VS Code version: 1.58.2
• Extension version v0.31.0

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Workaround

Use absolute directory path in the settings.xml