}

    /**
     * Merges the {@code source} location into the {@code target} location.
     *
     * @param target the target location
     * @param source the source location
     * @param sourceDominant the boolean indicating of {@code source} is dominant compared to {@code target}
     * @return the merged location
     */

            Map<String, String> merged = new HashMap<>();
            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());
            }

                while (execs.putIfAbsent(id, e.withId(id)) != null) {
                    id = e.getId() + "-" + (++i);
                }
            });
            Plugin merged = cur.withExecutions(execs.values());
            plugins.put(merged, merged);
        }
    }

    private static String getExecutionId(Plugin plugin, String goal) {
        Set<String> existingIds = plugin != null

    }

    public void merge(ArtifactMetadata metadata) {
        ProjectArtifactMetadata m = (ProjectArtifactMetadata) metadata;
        if (!m.file.equals(file)) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot add two different pieces of metadata for: " + getKey());
        }
    }

    public void merge(org.apache.maven.repository.legacy.metadata.ArtifactMetadata metadata) {

        return path;
    }

    public void merge(File existing, File result) throws RepositoryException {
        merge(existing != null ? existing.toPath() : null, result != null ? result.toPath() : null);
    }

    @Override
    public void merge(Path existing, Path result) throws RepositoryException {
        Metadata recessive = read(existing);

        merge(recessive);

        write(result, metadata);

                merged.put(key, element);
            }

            for (Repository element : recessive) {
                Object key = getRepositoryKey().apply(element);
                if (!merged.containsKey(key)) {
                    merged.put(key, element);
                }
            }

            builder.repositories(merged.values());
        }
    }

    @Override

                    .build();
            model.update(merger.merge(model.getDelegate(), lifecycleModel));
        }
    }

    /**
     *  The domain-specific model merger for lifecycle bindings
     */
    protected static class LifecycleBindingsMerger extends MavenModelMerger {

        private static final String PLUGIN_MANAGEMENT = "plugin-management";

        public Model merge(Model target, Model source) {

        // don't merge
    }

    @Override
    protected void mergeBuildBase_Resources(
            BuildBase.Builder builder,
            BuildBase target,
            BuildBase source,
            boolean sourceDominant,
            Map<Object, Object> context) {
        // don't merge
    }

    @Override
    protected void mergeBuildBase_TestResources(

                return plugin.withExecutions(map(
                        plugin.getExecutions(),
                        execution -> execution.withConfiguration(
                                XmlNode.merge(execution.getConfiguration(), pluginConfiguration))));
            } else {
                return plugin;
            }
        });
    }

    private List<ReportPlugin> expandReport(List<ReportPlugin> oldPlugins) {

/**
 * 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
     *            be <code>null</code>.