String CHILDREN_COMBINATION_MODE_ATTRIBUTE = "combine.children";

    String CHILDREN_COMBINATION_MERGE = "merge";

    String CHILDREN_COMBINATION_APPEND = "append";

    /**
     * This default mode for combining children DOMs during merge means that where element names match, the process will
     * try to merge the element data, rather than putting the dominant and recessive elements (which share the same

            locations.putAll(sourceDominant ? sourceLocations : targetLocations);
        }

        return new InputLocation(-1, -1, InputSource.merge(source.getSource(), target.getSource()), locations);
    } // -- InputLocation merge( InputLocation, InputLocation, boolean )

    /**
     * Merges the {@code source} location into the {@code target} location.

        return metadata;
    }

    public void merge(org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.metadata.ArtifactMetadata metadata) {
        // TODO not sure that it should assume this, maybe the calls to addMetadata should pre-merge, then artifact
        // replaces?
        AbstractRepositoryMetadata repoMetadata = (AbstractRepositoryMetadata) metadata;
        this.metadata.merge(repoMetadata.getMetadata());
    }

    ProjectBuildingRequest setRepositorySession(RepositorySystemSession repositorySession);

    /**
     * Sets the merge mode used to combine repositories declared in the POM with the repositories specified in this
     * request.
     *
     * @param mode The repository merge mode, must not be {@code null}.
     * @return This request for chaining, never {@code null}.
     * @see #setRemoteRepositories(List)
     */

     *
     * @return the filename
     */
    String getRemoteFilename();

    /**
     * Merge a new metadata set into this piece of metadata.
     * TODO this should only be needed on the repository metadata {@link org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadata}
     *
     * @param metadata the new metadata
     */
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

    /**
     * Store the metadata in the local repository.

     * and model completely decoupled by injecting deep copies rather than the original objects from the profile.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values defined by the profile, must not be <code>null</code>.
     * @param profile The (read-only) profile whose values should be injected, may be <code>null</code>.

            }
            return result;
        }

        public void merge(org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.metadata.ArtifactMetadata metadata) {
            // not used
        }

        public void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata) {
            // not used
        }

 */
@Deprecated
public interface ArtifactMetadata extends org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.metadata.ArtifactMetadata {
    void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata);

        Source userSource = request.getUserSettingsSource().orElse(null);
        Settings user = readSettings(userSource, false, request, problems);

        Settings effective =
                settingsMerger.merge(user, settingsMerger.merge(project, global, false, null), false, null);

        // If no repository is defined in the user/global settings,
        // it means that we have "old" settings (as those are new in 4.0)

package org.apache.maven.api.services;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.maven.api.RemoteRepository;
import org.apache.maven.api.model.Repository;

public interface ModelRepositoryHolder {

    void merge(List<Repository> repos, boolean replace);

    List<RemoteRepository> getRepositories();

    ModelRepositoryHolder copy();