From 193778ec0e780ebf89138f5104ead881c0e3899f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: tssp <tssp@web.de>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:22:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [MNG-5816] Empy maven.config cause Maven to exit with failure

Avoid adding non empty configuration argument that causes exception.

Signed-off-by: Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarbaise@apache.org>
---
 .../src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java         | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java b/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
index 8ce299f653..034cb004a1 100644
--- a/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
+++ b/maven-embedder/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/cli/MavenCli.java
@@ -377,7 +377,10 @@ public class MavenCli
             {
                 for ( String arg : Files.toString( configFile, Charsets.UTF_8 ).split( "\\s+" ) )
                 {
-                    args.add( arg );
+                    if ( !arg.isEmpty() )
+                    {
+                        args.add( arg );
+                    }
                 }
 
                 CommandLine config = cliManager.parse( args.toArray( new String[args.size()] ) );