// eaten, handled by repo system
            } else {
                request.addMetadata(new MetadataBridge(metadata));
            }
        }

        RemoteRepository remoteRepo = RepositoryUtils.toRepo(deploymentRepository);
        /*
         * NOTE: This provides backward-compat with maven-deploy-plugin:2.4 which bypasses the repository factory when
         * using an alternative deployment location.
         */