} // -- InputLocation merge( InputLocation, InputLocation, boolean )

    /**
     * Merges the {@code source} location into the {@code target} location.
     * This method is used when the locations refer to lists and also merges the indices.
     *
     * @param target the target location
     * @param source the source location

                .build();
        DefaultMavenExecutionRequest mer = new DefaultMavenExecutionRequest();
        DefaultMavenExecutionResult meres = new DefaultMavenExecutionResult();
        MavenSession ms = new MavenSession(rss, mer, meres);
        DefaultSession session = new DefaultSession(
                ms,
                repositorySystem,
                Collections.emptyList(),

        checkVersionsOrder(c, d);
        checkVersionsOrder(b, d);
        checkVersionsOrder(a, d);
    }

    /**
     * Test all versions are equal when starting with many leading zeroes regardless of string length
     * (related to MNG-6572 optimization)
     */
    @Test
    void testVersionEqualWithLeadingZeroes() {
        // versions with string lengths from 1 to 19

import org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelProblemCollector;

/**
 * Handles injection of plugin management into the model.
 *
 */
public interface PluginManagementInjector {

    /**
     * Merges default values from the plugin management section of the given model into itself.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values specified by its plugin management section, must not be

import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Filter to only retain objects in the given scope or better. This implementation allows the accumulation of multiple
 * scopes and their associated implied scopes, so that the user can filter apply a series of implication rules in a
 * single step. This should be a more efficient implementation of multiple standard {@link ScopeArtifactFilter}
 * instances ORed together.
 *
 */

import org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelProblemCollector;

/**
 * Handles profile injection into the model.
 *
 */
public interface ProfileInjector {

    /**
     * Merges values from the specified profile into the given model. Implementations are expected to keep the profile
     * and model completely decoupled by injecting deep copies rather than the original objects from the profile.
     *

 * representation for models that physically look different but are semantically equivalent.
 *
 */
public interface ModelNormalizer {

    /**
     * Merges duplicate elements like multiple declarations of the same build plugin in the specified model.
     *
     * @param model The model whose duplicate elements should be merged, must not be {@code null}.

/**
 * Handles expansion of general build plugin configuration into individual executions.
 *
 */
public interface PluginConfigurationExpander {

    /**
     * Merges values from general build plugin configuration into the individual plugin executions of the given model.
     *
     * @param model The model whose build plugin configuration should be expanded, must not be <code>null</code>.

import org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelProblemCollector;

/**
 * Handles injection of dependency management into the model.
 *
 */
public interface DependencyManagementInjector {

    /**
     * Merges default values from the dependency management section of the given model into itself.
     *
     * @param model The model into which to merge the values specified by its dependency management sections, must not

import org.apache.maven.api.services.ModelProblemCollector;

/**
 * Handles inheritance of model values.
 *
 */
public interface InheritanceAssembler {

    /**
     * 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