this is just a marker file....

            XMLStreamReader parser = new WstxInputFactory().createXMLStreamReader(is);
            if (parser.nextTag() == XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT
                    && parser.getLocalName().equals("project")) {
                for (int i = 0; i < parser.getAttributeCount(); i++) {
                    if ("root".equals(parser.getAttributeLocalName(i))) {

This is a marker file to allow the repository to be found in the classpath....

 * prior notice.
 *
 */
public interface ProjectRealmCache {

    /**
     * A cache key.
     */
    interface Key {
        // marker interface for cache keys
    }

    /**
     * CacheRecord
     */
    class CacheRecord {

        public ClassRealm getRealm() {
            return realm;
        }

import org.apache.maven.api.VersionRange;
import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Nonnull;
import org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParserException;

/**
 * Model builder specific version parser. It is intentionally not
 * {@link org.apache.maven.api.services.VersionParser} as this is not a service,
 * but at Maven runtime it MAY actually use that service.
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */

); public void setValue(String); public void setLine(String); public void setFile(java.io.File); public String[] getParts(); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/Commandline$Marker.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class Commandline$Marker { private int position; private int realPos; void Commandline$Marker(Commandline, int); public int getPosition(); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/Commandline.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class Commandline...

); public void setValue(String); public void setLine(String); public void setFile(java.io.File); public String[] getParts(); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/Commandline$Marker.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class Commandline$Marker { private int position; private int realPos; void Commandline$Marker(Commandline, int); public int getPosition(); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/Commandline.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class Commandline...

            resource to allow Maven to merge changes to this resource that take
            place during the execution of a plugin. This field must be managed
            by the generated parser and formatter classes in order to allow it
            to survive model interpolation.
          </description>
          <type>String</type>
        </field>
      </fields>
      <codeSegments>

    protected File getLocalRepositoryPath() throws FileNotFoundException, URISyntaxException {
        File markerFile = getFileForClasspathResource("local-repo/marker.txt");

        return markerFile.getAbsoluteFile().getParentFile();
    }

    protected static File getFileForClasspathResource(String resource)
            throws FileNotFoundException, URISyntaxException {

synchronized class DefaultConsumer implements StreamConsumer { public void DefaultConsumer(); public void consumeLine(String); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/Commandline$Marker.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class Commandline$Marker { private int position; private int realPos; void Commandline$Marker(Commandline, int); public int getPosition(); } org/codehaus/plexus/util/cli/StreamFeeder.class package org.codehaus.plexus.util.cli; public synchronized class StreamFeeder...