}

        orderedNodeConnectionsBuilder.add(new NodeConnection.Pred<>(predecessor));
        predecessorCount++;
      } else { // incidentEdge is an outEdge
        checkArgument(incidentEdge.nodeU().equals(thisNode));

        N successor = incidentEdge.nodeV();
        V value = successorNodeToValueFn.apply(successor);

      if (n->IsSource() || n->IsSink()) {
        continue;
      }

      bool inserted_n = false;
      const EdgeSet& edges =
          direction == Direction::kForward ? n->in_edges() : n->out_edges();
      for (const Edge* e : edges) {
        if (result->contains(direction == Direction::kForward ? e->src()
                                                              : e->dst())) {
          result->insert(n);

// but does not have the ManagedGatewayLabel, we won't overwrite it.
// This ensures we don't accidentally take over some resource we weren't supposed to, which could cause outages.
// Note K8s doesn't have a perfect way to "conditionally SSA", but its close enough (https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/116156).