/**
     * Merges values from the specified parent model into the given child model. Implementations are expected to keep
     * parent and child completely decoupled by injecting deep copies of objects into the child rather than the original
     * objects from the parent.
     *
     * @param child The child model into which to merge the values inherited from the parent, must not be
     *            <code>null</code>.

   * @param defaultValue the default value to return if the iterator is empty or if {@code position}
   *     is greater than the number of elements remaining in {@code iterator}
   * @return the element at the specified position in {@code iterator} or {@code defaultValue} if
   *     {@code iterator} produces fewer than {@code position + 1} elements.
   * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if {@code position} is negative
   * @since 4.0
   */

   * natural ordering. The sorted multisets use {@link Ordering#natural()} as the comparator. This
   * method provides more type-safety than {@link #builder}, as it can be called only for classes
   * that implement {@link Comparable}.
   *
   * <p>Note: the type parameter {@code E} extends {@code Comparable<?>} rather than {@code
   * Comparable<? super E>} as a workaround for javac <a

     *
     * @param projectDirectory The base directory of the current project, may be {@code null} if profile activation
     *                         happens in the context of metadata retrieval rather than project building.
     * @return This context, never {@code null}.
     */
    public DefaultProfileActivationContext setProjectDirectory(Path projectDirectory) {
        this.projectDirectory = projectDirectory;

     * <li>The parent uses aggregation and refers to the child via the modules section</li>
     * <li>The module path to the child is considered to
     * point at the POM rather than its base directory if the path ends with ".xml" (ignoring case)</li>
     * <li>The name of the child's base directory matches the artifact id of the child.</li>
     * </ul>
     * Note that for the sake of independence from the user

 * @since 10.0 (<a href="https://github.com/google/guava/wiki/Compatibility">mostly
 *     source-compatible</a> since 4.0)
 */
@GwtCompatible
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
/*
 * The type parameter is <T> rather than <T extends @Nullable> so that we can use T in the
 * doEquivalent and doHash methods to indicate that the parameter cannot be null.
 */
public abstract class Equivalence<T>
{
  /** Constructor for use by subclasses. */

   *
   * <p>If {@code expectedSize} is exactly the number of entries added to the builder before {@link
   * Builder#build} is called, the builder is likely to perform better than an unsized {@link
   * #builder()} would have.
   *
   * <p>It is not specified if any performance benefits apply if {@code expectedSize} is close to,
   * but not exactly, the number of entries added to the builder.
   *

   * instead.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> If {@code elements} is a {@code SortedSet} with an explicit comparator, this
   * method has different behavior than {@link TreeSet#TreeSet(SortedSet)}, which returns a {@code
   * TreeSet} with that comparator.
   *
   * <p><b>Note:</b> this method is now unnecessary and should be treated as deprecated. Instead,

                        Files.getLastModifiedTime(outputFile).toMillis();
                if (outputFileLastModified > artifactLastModified) {
                    LOGGER.warn(
                            "File '{}' is more recent than the packaged artifact for '{}', "
                                    + "please run a full `mvn package` build",
                            relativizeOutputFile(outputFile),
                            project.getArtifactId());

     * The returned list of versions is only dependent on the configured repositories and their contents.
     * The supplied request may also refer to a single concrete version rather than a version range.
     * In this case though, the result contains simply the (parsed) input version, regardless of the
     * repositories and their contents.
     *