return path;
    }

    @Override
    public void merge(File existing, File result) throws RepositoryException {
        merge(existing != null ? existing.toPath() : null, result != null ? result.toPath() : null);
    }

    @Override
    public void merge(Path existing, Path result) throws RepositoryException {
        Metadata recessive = read(existing);

        merge(recessive);

        write(result, metadata);

import org.apache.maven.artifact.metadata.ArtifactMetadata;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository;
import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.DefaultArtifactRepository;
import org.eclipse.aether.RepositoryException;
import org.eclipse.aether.metadata.AbstractMetadata;
import org.eclipse.aether.metadata.MergeableMetadata;
import org.eclipse.aether.metadata.Metadata;

/**

            }

            if (!visited.add(a.getGroupId() + ':' + a.getArtifactId() + ':' + a.getBaseVersion())) {
                RepositoryException exception =
                        new RepositoryException("Artifact relocations form a cycle: " + visited);
                invalidDescriptor(session, trace, a, exception);