Need to use manifest file mentioned in repo init

Question

I have a repo init command of the format repo init -u url -m manifest.xml. This manifest file name will vary. After repo init and repo sync, I need to use that manifest name in my shell script. Any environment variable exists for that?

Answer 1

You can find the name of your current manifest file in .repo/manifest.xml.

You will find such a file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE!  It is generated by repo and changes will be discarded.
If you want to use a different manifest, use `repo init -m <file>` instead.

If you want to customize your checkout by overriding manifest settings, use
the local_manifests/ directory instead.

For more information on repo manifests, check out:
https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/+/HEAD/docs/manifest-format.md
-->
<manifest>
  <include name="default.xml" />
</manifest>

This correspond to repo init -u url -m default.xml.

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To get the value in your terminal you can use xmllint (libxml2-utils package):

xmllint --xpath "string(//include/@name)" .repo/manifest.xml