diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojo.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojo.java
index 43044218..5522708c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojo.java
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 /**
  * Installs the artifact in the remote repository.
- * 
+ *
  * @author <a href="mailto:aramirez@apache.org">Allan Ramirez</a>
  */
 @Mojo( name = "deploy-file", requiresProject = false, threadSafe = true )
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public class DeployFileMojo
 
     /**
      * The bundled API docs for the artifact.
-     * 
+     *
      * @since 2.6
      */
     @Parameter( property = "javadoc" )
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public class DeployFileMojo
 
     /**
      * The bundled sources for the artifact.
-     * 
+     *
      * @since 2.6
      */
     @Parameter( property = "sources" )
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ public class DeployFileMojo
 
     /**
      * Whether to deploy snapshots with a unique version or not.
-     * 
+     *
      * @deprecated As of Maven 3, this isn't supported anymore and this parameter is only present to break the build if
      *             you use it!
      */
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ public class DeployFileMojo
     @Parameter( property = "files" )
     private String files;
 
+    /**
+     * Whether to skip bypass artifact deploy.  "true" means skip deployment.
+     * Defaults to "false"
+     */
+    @Parameter( property = "maven.deploy.file.skip", defaultValue = "false" )
+    private boolean skip;
+
     @Component
     private RepositoryManager repoManager;
 
@@ -316,6 +323,11 @@ public void execute()
                 + " from the maven-deploy-plugin. "
                 + "Please see the >>Major Version Upgrade to version 3.0.0<< on the plugin site." );
         }
+        if ( skip )
+        {
+            getLog().info( "Skipping artifact deployment" );
+            return;
+        }
 
         failIfOffline();
 
@@ -494,7 +506,7 @@ public void execute()
      * Creates a Maven project in-memory from the user-supplied groupId, artifactId and version. When a classifier is
      * supplied, the packaging must be POM because the project with only have attachments. This project serves as basis
      * to attach the artifacts to deploy to.
-     * 
+     *
      * @return The created Maven project, never <code>null</code>.
      * @throws MojoExecutionException When the model of the project could not be built.
      * @throws MojoFailureException When building the project failed.
@@ -532,7 +544,7 @@ private MavenProject createMavenProject()
     /**
      * Gets the path of the artifact constructed from the supplied groupId, artifactId, version, classifier and
      * packaging within the local repository. Note that the returned path need not exist (yet).
-     * 
+     *
      * @return The absolute path to the artifact when installed, never <code>null</code>.
      */
     private File getLocalRepoFile()
@@ -549,7 +561,7 @@ private File getLocalRepoFile()
 
     /**
      * Process the supplied pomFile to get groupId, artifactId, version, and packaging
-     * 
+     *
      * @param model The POM to extract missing artifact coordinates from, must not be <code>null</code>.
      */
     private void processModel( Model model )
@@ -584,7 +596,7 @@ private void processModel( Model model )
 
     /**
      * Extract the model from the specified POM file.
-     * 
+     *
      * @param pomFile The path of the POM file to parse, must not be <code>null</code>.
      * @return The model from the POM file, never <code>null</code>.
      * @throws MojoExecutionException If the file doesn't exist of cannot be read.
@@ -621,7 +633,7 @@ Model readModel( File pomFile )
 
     /**
      * Generates a minimal POM from the user-supplied artifact information.
-     * 
+     *
      * @return The path to the generated POM file, never <code>null</code>.
      * @throws MojoExecutionException If the generation failed.
      */
@@ -657,7 +669,7 @@ private File generatePomFile()
 
     /**
      * Generates a minimal model from the user-supplied artifact information.
-     * 
+     *
      * @return The generated model, never <code>null</code>.
      */
     private Model generateModel()
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
index 6c7064bb..f5708a76 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/plugins/deploy/DeployFileMojoTest.java
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ public class DeployFileMojoTest
     extends AbstractMojoTestCase
 {
     private String LOCAL_REPO = getBasedir() + "/target/local-repo";
-    
+
     private List<String> expectedFiles;
 
     private List<String> fileList;
@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ public class DeployFileMojoTest
 
     @Mock
     private MavenSession session;
-    
+
     @InjectMocks
     private DeployFileMojo mojo;
-    
+
     public void setUp()
         throws Exception
     {
@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@ public void testBasicDeployFile()
         mojo = (DeployFileMojo) lookupMojo( "deploy-file", testPom );
 
         MockitoAnnotations.initMocks( this );
-        
+
         assertNotNull( mojo );
-        
+
         ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock ( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
         when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
         MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
         repositorySession.setLocalRepositoryManager( new SimpleLocalRepositoryManager( LOCAL_REPO ) );
         when( buildingRequest.getRepositorySession() ).thenReturn( repositorySession );
-        
+
         String groupId = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "groupId" );
 
         String artifactId = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "artifactId" );
@@ -110,6 +110,8 @@ public void testBasicDeployFile()
 
         String url = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "url" );
 
+        boolean skip = (boolean) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "skip" );
+
         assertEquals( "org.apache.maven.test", groupId );
 
         assertEquals( "maven-deploy-file-test", artifactId );
@@ -118,12 +120,14 @@ public void testBasicDeployFile()
 
         assertEquals( "jar", packaging );
 
+        assertTrue( !skip );
+
         assertTrue( file.exists() );
 
         assertEquals( "deploy-test", repositoryId );
 
         assertEquals( "file://" + getBasedir() + "/target/remote-repo/deploy-file-test", url );
-        
+
         mojo.execute();
 
         //check the generated pom
@@ -188,9 +192,9 @@ public void testDeployIfClassifierIsSet()
         mojo = (DeployFileMojo) lookupMojo( "deploy-file", testPom );
 
         MockitoAnnotations.initMocks( this );
-        
+
         assertNotNull( mojo );
-        
+
         ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock ( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
         when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
         MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
@@ -236,9 +240,9 @@ public void testDeployIfArtifactIsNotJar()
         mojo = (DeployFileMojo) lookupMojo( "deploy-file", testPom );
 
         MockitoAnnotations.initMocks( this );
-        
+
         assertNotNull( mojo );
-        
+
         ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock ( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
         when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
         MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
@@ -266,6 +270,48 @@ public void testDeployIfArtifactIsNotJar()
         assertTrue( file.exists() );
     }
 
+    public void testDeployIsSkip()
+        throws Exception
+    {
+        File testPom = new File( getBasedir(), "target/test-classes/unit/deploy-file-skip/plugin-config.xml" );
+
+        mojo = (DeployFileMojo) lookupMojo( "deploy-file", testPom );
+
+        MockitoAnnotations.initMocks( this );
+
+        assertNotNull( mojo );
+
+        ProjectBuildingRequest buildingRequest = mock ( ProjectBuildingRequest.class );
+        when( session.getProjectBuildingRequest() ).thenReturn( buildingRequest );
+        MavenRepositorySystemSession repositorySession = new MavenRepositorySystemSession();
+        repositorySession.setLocalRepositoryManager( new SimpleLocalRepositoryManager( LOCAL_REPO ) );
+        when( buildingRequest.getRepositorySession() ).thenReturn( repositorySession );
+
+        String groupId = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "groupId" );
+
+        String artifactId = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "artifactId" );
+
+        String version = (String) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "version" );
+
+        boolean skip = (boolean) getVariableValueFromObject( mojo, "skip" );
+
+        assertEquals( "org.apache.maven.test", groupId );
+
+        assertTrue( skip );
+
+        assertEquals( "maven-deploy-file-test", artifactId );
+
+        assertEquals( "1.0", version );
+
+        mojo.execute();
+
+        File file = new File( remoteRepo, "deploy-file-skip/" + groupId.replace( '.', '/' ) +
+                                          "/" + artifactId + "/" + version + "/" + artifactId +
+                                          "-" + version + ".zip");
+
+        assertTrue( !file.exists() );
+    }
+
     private void addFileToList( File file, List<String> fileList )
     {
         if ( !file.isDirectory() )
@@ -301,4 +347,3 @@ private int getSizeOfExpectedFiles( List<String> fileList, List<String> expected
     }
 
 }
-
diff --git a/src/test/resources/unit/deploy-file-skip/plugin-config.xml b/src/test/resources/unit/deploy-file-skip/plugin-config.xml
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..e847eac9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/unit/deploy-file-skip/plugin-config.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<!--
+Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+distributed with this work for additional information
+regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+specific language governing permissions and limitations
+under the License.
+-->
+
+<project>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <plugin>
+        <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <groupId>org.apache.maven.test</groupId>
+          <artifactId>maven-deploy-file-test</artifactId>
+          <version>1.0</version>
+          <skip>true</skip>
+          <file>${basedir}/src/test/resources/unit/deploy-file-skip/target/deploy-test-file.zip</file>
+          <repositoryId>deploy-test</repositoryId>
+          <url>file://${basedir}/target/remote-repo/deploy-file-skip</url>
+          <generatePom>true</generatePom>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>