<type>String</type>
        </field>
        <field xml.transient="true">
          <name>mergeId</name>
          <version>4.0.0</version>
          <description>
            FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY. This is a unique identifier assigned to each
            resource to allow Maven to merge changes to this resource that take
            place during the execution of a plugin. This field must be managed

            Properties merged = new Properties();
            if (sourceDominant) {
                merged.putAll(target.getProperties());
                putAll(merged, source.getProperties(), CHILD_DIRECTORY_PROPERTY);
            } else {
                putAll(merged, source.getProperties(), CHILD_DIRECTORY_PROPERTY);
                merged.putAll(target.getProperties());
            }

    /**
     * Merges an array of SuggestItem objects by combining items with the same ID.
     *
     * <p>This method iterates through the provided array of SuggestItem objects and merges
     * items that have the same ID. The merged items are added to a new list, which is then
     * converted back to an array and returned.</p>
     *

        Model source = Model.newBuilder().artifactId("SOURCE").build();

        Model merged = mavenMerger.merge(target, source, true, null);
        assertEquals(
                "SOURCE",
                merged.getArtifactId(),
                "Expected merged artifactId to be SOURCE but was " + merged.getArtifactId());

        merged = mavenMerger.merge(target, source, false, null);
        assertEquals(
                "TARGET",

	Totals  [60]AccElem
	LastMin int64
}

// Merge data of two ReplicationLastHour structure
func (l ReplicationLastHour) merge(o ReplicationLastHour) (merged ReplicationLastHour) {
	if l.LastMin > o.LastMin {
		o.forwardTo(l.LastMin)
		merged.LastMin = l.LastMin
	} else {
		l.forwardTo(o.LastMin)
		merged.LastMin = o.LastMin
	}

	for i := range merged.Totals {
		merged.Totals[i] = AccElem{

        SuggestItem merged = SuggestItem.merge(item1, item2);

        assertNotNull(merged);
        assertEquals("item1", merged.getText());
        assertEquals(150L, merged.getQueryFreq()); // Sum of frequencies
        assertEquals(75L, merged.getDocFreq()); // Sum of frequencies
        assertEquals(1.5f, merged.getUserBoost(), 0.001f); // Takes item2's boost

     * @return the merged node
     *
     * @deprecated use {@link XmlService#merge(XmlNode, XmlNode, Boolean)} instead
     */
    @Deprecated(since = "4.0.0", forRemoval = true)
    @Nullable
    static XmlNode merge(@Nullable XmlNode dominant, @Nullable XmlNode recessive) {
        return XmlService.merge(dominant, recessive, null);
    }

    @Nullable
    static XmlNode merge(

				}
				vMod = append(vMod, newVers)
			}
			merged := mergeXLV2Versions(i, true, 0, vMod...)
			if len(merged) == 0 && i < 2 {
				t.Error("Did not get any results")
				return
			}
			if len(merged) > 0 && i >= 2 {
				t.Error("Got unexpected results", len(merged), merged[0].header)
				return
			}
			for _, ver := range merged {
				if ver.header.Type == invalidVersionType {

	}
	for k, v := range d.Cache {
		clone.Cache[k] = v.clone()
	}
	return clone
}

// merge root of other into d.
// children of root will be flattened before being merged.
// Last update time will be set to the last updated.
func (d *dataUsageCache) merge(other dataUsageCache) {
	existingRoot := d.root()
	otherRoot := other.root()
	if existingRoot == nil && otherRoot == nil {
		return

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