manifest: Support ignoring local manifests with 'repo manifest'

Currently users need to look up the baseline manifest by loading the
specific manifest file.  This exposes them to the internals of how the
manifest is stored which may potentially be fragile (eg: It was
switched from a symlink pointing at the file in the report to an
actual file with an 'include' tag).

Instead of doing this, we can provide an option to the 'repo manifest'
command which will emit the baseline manifest and decouple users from
the internal manifest details.

Change-Id: I12ee9160feaa591484ae71f404bc529be500ae4e
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/311202
Tested-by: Michael Kelly <mkelly@arista.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/subcmds/manifest.py b/subcmds/manifest.py
index 00587d8d..0fbdeac0 100644
--- a/subcmds/manifest.py
+++ b/subcmds/manifest.py
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ to indicate the remote ref to push changes to via 'repo upload'.
                  help='output manifest in JSON format (experimental)')
     p.add_option('--pretty', default=False, action='store_true',
                  help='format output for humans to read')
+    p.add_option('--no-local-manifests', default=False, action='store_true',
+                 dest='ignore_local_manifests', help='ignore local manifests')
     p.add_option('-o', '--output-file',
                  dest='output_file',
                  default='-',
@@ -85,6 +87,9 @@ to indicate the remote ref to push changes to via 'repo upload'.
       fd = sys.stdout
     else:
       fd = open(opt.output_file, 'w')
+
+    self.manifest.SetUseLocalManifests(not opt.ignore_local_manifests)
+
     if opt.json:
       print('warning: --json is experimental!', file=sys.stderr)
       doc = self.manifest.ToDict(peg_rev=opt.peg_rev,