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 For your convenience, you also can use a plain text file to define plugins to be installed
 (using core-support plugin format).
-All plugins need to be listed as there is no transitive dependency resolution.
+All plugins need to be listed in the form `pluginID:version` as there is no transitive dependency resolution.
 
 ```
-pluginID:version
 credentials:1.18
 maven-plugin:2.7.1
 ...