assertNull(root.getParent());
      assertNull(root.toRealPath().getParent());
      MoreFiles.createParentDirectories(root); // test that there's no exception
    }
  }

  public void testCreateParentDirectories_relativePath() throws IOException {
    Path path = FS.getPath("nonexistent.file");
    assertNull(path.getParent());
    assertNotNull(path.toAbsolutePath().getParent());

        // we want to see all top-level thread groups
        ThreadGroup tg = Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup();
        while (tg.getParent() == null) {
            tg = tg.getParent();
        }

        ThreadGroup[] tgList = new ThreadGroup[tg.activeGroupCount()];
        tg.enumerate(tgList);

        boolean seen = false;

    }

    public void merge(File current, File result) throws RepositoryException {
        try {
            if (current.exists()) {
                Files.createDirectories(result.toPath().getParent());
                Files.copy(current.toPath(), result.toPath());
            }
            ArtifactRepository localRepo = new MetadataRepository(result);
            metadata.storeInLocalRepository(localRepo, localRepo);

        File pom1 = new File(pom0Basedir, "p1/pom.xml");

        // load everything...
        MavenProject project1 = getProjectWithDependencies(pom1);

        assertEquals(pom0Basedir, project1.getParent().getBasedir());
        System.out.println("Project " + project1.getId() + " " + project1);
        Set set = project1.getArtifacts();
        assertNotNull(set, "No artifacts");

    @Override
    public ModelSource3 getRelatedSource(ModelLocator locator, String relPath) {
        relPath = relPath.replace('\\', File.separatorChar).replace('/', File.separatorChar);

        Path path = getPath().getParent().resolve(relPath);

        Path relatedPom = locator.locateExistingPom(path);

        if (relatedPom != null) {
            return new FileModelSource(relatedPom.normalize());
        }

        return null;

        // here and be safe. jvz.
        // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        try {
            Files.createDirectories(destination.toPath().getParent());
            Files.copy(file.toPath(), destination.toPath());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new RepositoryMetadataStoreException("Error copying POM to the local repository.", e);
        }
    }

  }

  private WeakReference<ClassLoader> useFrqInSeparateLoader() throws Exception {
    final ClassLoader myLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
    URLClassLoader sepLoader = new URLClassLoader(getClassPathUrls(), myLoader.getParent());
    // sepLoader is the loader that we will use to load the parallel FinalizableReferenceQueue (FRQ)
    // and friends, and that we will eventually expect to see garbage-collected. The assumption

        if (groupId == null && model.getParent() != null) {
            groupId = model.getParent().getGroupId();
        }
        return groupId;
    }

    private String getVersion(Model model) {
        String version = model.getVersion();
        if (version == null && model.getParent() != null) {
            version = model.getParent().getVersion();
        }
        return version;

    /**
     * @param fe
     * @return
     * @throws MalformedURLException
     */
    @Override
    protected SmbResource adapt ( FileEntry e ) throws MalformedURLException {
        return new SmbFile(getParent(), e.getName(), false, e.getType(), SmbConstants.ATTR_READONLY | SmbConstants.ATTR_DIRECTORY, 0L, 0L, 0L, 0L);
    }

    }

    @Override
    public Path getRootDirectory() {
        return project.getRootDirectory();
    }

    @Override
    public Optional<Project> getParent() {
        MavenProject parent = project.getParent();
        return Optional.ofNullable(session.getProject(parent));
    }

    @Nonnull
    private DependencyCoordinates toDependency(org.apache.maven.api.model.Dependency dependency) {