a debug message.

  * If the wagon is bound to "file://" then:

    Retrieve the file or base-url file to be "downloaded".

    * If the file (or more usefully, the base-url file) exists, proceed.

    * If the file (or base-url file) doesn't exist, assume that this location
      is part of a file-share. Ignore the request and print a debug message
      as above.

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main channel of communication for contributors.  
There are some guidelines which will make applying PRs easier for us:
+ Create a topic branch from where you want to base your work (this is usually the master branch).
  Push your changes to a topic branch in your fork of the repository.
+ Make commits of logical units.
+ Respect the original code style: by using the same [codestyle][code-style],

  their projects. It also allows for a certain amount of legacy support into the
  future. Therefore, we should rename this file from pom.xml in the maven-core
  jarfile to pom-4.0.0.xml (and successive revisions to the base pom made to
  accommodate changes in the model will be named accordingly - 4.0.1, 4.0.2, ...).

Minimum Element-Set for a Project POM

  In order to furnish a basic set of information which we need to distinguish one

    exit 1
  fi
fi

# traverses directory structure from process work directory to filesystem root
# first directory with .mvn subdirectory is considered project base directory
find_maven_basedir() {
(
  basedir=`find_file_argument_basedir "$@"`
  wdir="$basedir"
  while [ "$wdir" != '/' ] ; do
    if [ -d "$wdir"/.mvn ] ; then
      basedir=$wdir
      break
    fi

        </parameter>
      </parameters>

- we need to know what came from the POM, and validate those
- plugin in any default values
- check to see if anything is missing

h4. Working with POMs during development