| org | the name of the organisation of the dependency. | No, defaults to the master module organisation | 
    | name | the module name of the dependency | Yes | 
    | branch | the branch of the dependency. since 1.4 | No, defaults to the default branch [[settings/conf.html setting]] for the dependency. | 
    | rev | the revision of the dependency. See above for details. | Yes | 
    | revConstraint | the dynamic revision constraint originally used for this dependency. See above for details. | No, defaults to the value of rev | 
    | force | a boolean to give an indication to conflict manager that this dependency 
     should be forced to this revision (see conflicts manager) | No, defaults to false | 
    | conf | an inline mapping configuration spec (see above for details) | No, defaults to defaultconf attribute of dependencies element if neither conf attribute nor conf children element is given | 
    | transitive | true to resolve this dependency transitively, false otherwise (since 1.2) | No, defaults to true | 
    | changing | true if the dependency artifacts may change without revision change, false otherwise (since 1.2). See cache and change management for details. | No, defaults to false |