Offline is broken - _maven.repositories

[Paul Grove]

Can I have the hour of my life I just wasted trying to get Maven 3 working
offline? Even with -o Maven kept complaining about dependency not in local
repository we basically it was. After an hour of wasted time I discovered my
local repository full of files named _maven.repositories after deleting all
these files Maven then worked offline just fine. theirs me thinking offline
means offline, I missed my kids bedtime because of this. Another reason
gradle will be getting a closer look from me.