sonatype/nexus — comment on commit 89e13bcea046bc27c3b94215b8d5a36e4dffea7b
File: nexus-maven-plugins/nexus-maven-plugin/src/main/java/org/sonatype/nexus/plugin/AbstractStagingMojo.java line 331
By bentmann:

I'm not 100% sure but it should be safer to the id "local" here, i.e. to match the behavior of a real local repo and avoid potential issues with the compat code that needs to detect a local repo.