List<ArtifactRepository> remoteRepositories,
            ArtifactRepository localRepository)
            throws RepositoryMetadataStoreException {
        // TODO currently this is first wins, but really we should take the latest by comparing either the
        // snapshot timestamp, or some other timestamp later encoded into the metadata.
        // TODO this needs to be repeated here so the merging doesn't interfere with the written metadata

    assertThat(Comparators.max(1, 2, reverse)).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(Comparators.max(2, 1, reverse)).isEqualTo(1);
  }

  /**
   * Fails compilation if the signature of min and max is changed to take {@code Comparator<T>}
   * instead of {@code Comparator<? super T>}.
   */
  public void testMinMaxWithSupertypeComparator() {
    Comparator<Number> numberComparator =

    assertThat(Comparators.max(1, 2, reverse)).isEqualTo(1);
    assertThat(Comparators.max(2, 1, reverse)).isEqualTo(1);
  }

  /**
   * Fails compilation if the signature of min and max is changed to take {@code Comparator<T>}
   * instead of {@code Comparator<? super T>}.
   */
  public void testMinMaxWithSupertypeComparator() {
    Comparator<Number> numberComparator =

   *       terminate whichever thread happens to trigger the execution.
   * </ul>
   *
   * A specific warning about locking: Code that executes user-supplied tasks, such as {@code
   * ListenableFuture} listeners, should take care not to do so while holding a lock. Additionally,
   * as a further line of defense, prefer not to perform any locking inside a task that will be run

            boolean isBlankVersion = descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion() == null
                    || descriptor.getRequiredMavenVersion().trim().isEmpty();

            if (isBlankVersion) {
                // only take value from underlying POM if plugin descriptor has no explicit Maven requirement
                descriptor.setRequiredMavenVersion(artifact.getProperty("requiredMavenVersion", null));
            }

   * memory but only for as long as the user retains a reference to it. That is, the set returned by
   * {@code combinations} does not retain the individual subsets.
   *
   * @param set the set of elements to take combinations of
   * @param size the number of elements per combination
   * @return the set of all combinations of {@code size} elements from {@code set}

   * generated using this are byte-wise identical to those created using the C++ version, but note
   * that this uses unsigned integers (see {@link com.google.common.primitives.UnsignedInts}).
   * Comparisons between the two should take this into account.
   *
   * <p>Fingerprint2011() is a form of Murmur2 on strings up to 32 bytes and a form of CityHash for
   * longer strings. It could have been one or the other throughout. The main advantage of the

 *
 * <p>If the precondition is not met, the {@code Preconditions} method throws an unchecked exception
 * of a specified type, which helps the method in which the exception was thrown communicate that
 * its caller has made a mistake. This allows constructs such as
 *
 * <pre>{@code
 * public static double sqrt(double value) {
 *   if (value < 0) {
 *     throw new IllegalArgumentException("input is negative: " + value);
 *   }

     * even as an external parent), the POM will be parsed in a lenient way.  Local POMs
     * are parsed more strictly.
     */
    boolean isProjectBuild();

    /**
     * Specifies whether plugin processing should take place for the built model.
     * This involves merging plugins specified by the {@link org.apache.maven.api.Packaging},
     * configuration expansion (merging configuration defined globally for a given plugin

    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
      return "Ordering.arbitrary()";
    }

    /*
     * We need to be able to mock identityHashCode() calls for tests, because it
     * can take 1-10 seconds to find colliding objects. Mocking frameworks that
     * can do magic to mock static method calls still can't do so for a system
     * class, so we need the indirection. In production, Hotspot should still