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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed 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.
+
+from __future__ import print_function
+import os
+import shutil
+
+import git_command
+import git_config
+
+
+# TODO (sbasi) - Remove this constant and fetch manifest dir from /gitc/.config
+GITC_MANIFEST_DIR = '/usr/local/google/gitc/'
+GITC_FS_ROOT_DIR = '/gitc/manifest-rw/'
+NUM_BATCH_RETRIEVE_REVISIONID = 300
+
+def _set_project_revisions(projects):
+  """Sets the revisionExpr for a list of projects.
+
+  Because of the limit of open file descriptors allowed, length of projects
+  should not be overly large. Recommend calling this function multiple times
+  with each call not exceeding NUM_BATCH_RETRIEVE_REVISIONID projects.
+
+  @param projects: List of project objects to set the revionExpr for.
+  """
+  # Retrieve the commit id for each project based off of it's current
+  # revisionExpr and it is not already a commit id.
+  project_gitcmds = [(
+      project, git_command.GitCommand(None,
+                                      ['ls-remote',
+                                       project.remote.url,
+                                       project.revisionExpr],
+                                      capture_stdout=True, cwd='/tmp'))
+      for project in projects if not git_config.IsId(project.revisionExpr)]
+  for proj, gitcmd in project_gitcmds:
+    if gitcmd.Wait():
+      print('FATAL: Failed to retrieve revisionExpr for %s' % project)
+      sys.exit(1)
+    proj.revisionExpr = gitcmd.stdout.split('\t')[0]
+
+def generate_gitc_manifest(client_dir, manifest):
+  """Generate a manifest for shafsd to use for this GITC client.
+
+  @param client_dir: GITC client directory to install the .manifest file in.
+  @param manifest: XmlManifest object representing the repo manifest.
+  """
+  print('Generating GITC Manifest by fetching revision SHAs for each '
+        'project.')
+  project_gitcmd_dict = {}
+  index = 0
+  while index < len(manifest.projects):
+    _set_project_revisions(
+        manifest.projects[index:(index+NUM_BATCH_RETRIEVE_REVISIONID)])
+    index += NUM_BATCH_RETRIEVE_REVISIONID
+  # Save the manifest.
+  with open(os.path.join(client_dir, '.manifest'), 'w') as f:
+    manifest.Save(f)