if (!src.isEmpty()) {
            List<String> tgt = target.getFilters();
            Set<String> excludes = new LinkedHashSet<>(tgt);
            List<String> merged = new ArrayList<>(tgt.size() + src.size());
            merged.addAll(tgt);
            for (String s : src) {
                if (!excludes.contains(s)) {
                    merged.add(s);
                }
            }

                    // don't stop processing in case a future segment explicitly excludes this repo
                }
                // check for external:http:*
                else if (EXTERNAL_HTTP_WILDCARD.equals(repo) && isExternalHttpRepo(originalRepository)) {
                    result = true;
                    // don't stop processing in case a future segment explicitly excludes this repo
                } else if (WILDCARD.equals(repo)) {

import org.eclipse.aether.collection.DependencyTraverser;
import org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency;

import static java.util.Objects.requireNonNull;

/**
 * A dependency traverser that excludes the dependencies of fat artifacts from the traversal. Fat artifacts are
 * artifacts that have the property {@link MavenArtifactProperties#INCLUDES_DEPENDENCIES} set to
 * {@code true}.
 *

			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
				<configuration>
					<argLine>--add-opens java.base/java.net=ALL-UNNAMED</argLine>
					<excludes>
						<exclude>**/JodExtractorTest.java</exclude>
					</excludes>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>
				<groupId>org.jacoco</groupId>
				<artifactId>jacoco-maven-plugin</artifactId>
			</plugin>
			<plugin>

                    .desc(
                            "Comma-delimited list of profiles to activate. Don't use spaces between commas or double quote the full list. Prefixing a profile with ! excludes it, and ? marks it as optional.")
                    .hasArg()
                    .get());
            options.addOption(Option.builder(SUPPRESS_SNAPSHOT_UPDATES)
                    .longOpt("no-snapshot-updates")

        given:
        buildFile << """
        plugins {
            id 'java'
            id 'elasticsearch.internal-licenseheaders'
        }

        tasks.named("licenseHeaders").configure {
            excludes << 'org/acme/filtered/**/*'
        }
        """
        dualLicensedFile()
        unknownSourceFile("src/main/java/org/acme/filtered/FilteredUnknownLicensed.java")

    /**
     * Array of property names to exclude from the operation.
     */
    protected final List<String> excludePropertyNames = newArrayList();

    /**
     * Whether to exclude properties with null values from the operation.
     */
    protected boolean excludesNull = false;

    /**
     * Whether to exclude strings that consist only of whitespace from the operation.
     */

        final List<String> excludes = List.of("the", "is", "a");

        final String[] words = input.toLowerCase(Locale.ROOT)
            .replaceAll("[^\\w]+", "_")
            .replaceFirst("^_+", "")
            .replaceFirst("_+$", "")
            .split("_+");
        return Arrays.stream(words).filter(word -> excludes.contains(word) == false).collect(Collectors.joining("_"));
    }

     */
    default List<String> excludes() {
        return List.of();
    }

    /**
     * {@return a matcher combining the include and exclude patterns}
     * If the user did not specify any includes, the given {@code defaultIncludes} are used.
     * These defaults depend on the plugin.
     * For example, the default include of the Java compiler plugin is <code>"**&sol;*.java"</code>.
     *

     * will contain all of the transitive dependencies of this particular
     * dependency. We can then use this configuration during pom generation
     * to iterate the transitive dependencies and add excludes.
     */
    public static void configureConfigurations(Project project) {
        // we are not shipping these jars, we act like dumb consumers of these things