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         busybox-staticdev busybox-locale
                 </literallayout>
             </para>
+
+            <para>
+                Finally, for those recipes that are fetched from a version control
+                system (such as Git) there is a file that lists the source revision(s)
+                specified in the recipe and the actual revision used when building
+                (which may be different when <filename>SRCREV</filename> is set to
+                <filename>${AUTOREV}</filename> for example). Here is an example
+                of one of these files:
+                <filename>buildhistory/packages/emenlow-poky-linux/linux-yocto/latest_srcrev</filename>):
+                <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     # SRCREV_machine = "b5c37fe6e24eec194bb29d22fdd55d73bcc709bf"
+     SRCREV_machine = "b5c37fe6e24eec194bb29d22fdd55d73bcc709bf"
+     # SRCREV_emgd = "caea08c988e0f41103bbe18eafca20348f95da02"
+     SRCREV_emgd = "caea08c988e0f41103bbe18eafca20348f95da02"
+     # SRCREV_meta = "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
+     SRCREV_meta = "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
+                </literallayout>
+                You can use the <filename>buildhistory-collect-srcrevs</filename>
+                command to collect the stored <filename>SRCREV</filename> values
+                from build history and report them in a format suitable for use in
+                global configuration (for example, local.conf or a distro include
+                file) to override floating AUTOREV values to a fixed set of revisions.
+                Here is some example output from this command:
+                <literallayout class='monospaced'>
+     # emenlow-poky-linux
+     SRCREV_machine_pn-linux-yocto = "b5c37fe6e24eec194bb29d22fdd55d73bcc709bf"
+     SRCREV_emgd_pn-linux-yocto = "caea08c988e0f41103bbe18eafca20348f95da02"
+     SRCREV_meta_pn-linux-yocto = "c2ed0f16fdec628242a682897d5d86df4547cf24"
+     # core2-poky-linux
+     SRCREV_pn-kmod = "62081c0f68905b22f375156d4532fd37fa5c8d33"
+     SRCREV_pn-blktrace = "d6918c8832793b4205ed3bfede78c2f915c23385"
+     SRCREV_pn-opkg = "649"
+                </literallayout>
+                Some notes on using the <filename>buildhistory-collect-srcrevs</filename>
+                command:
+                <itemizedlist>
+                    <listitem><para>By default only values where the SRCREV was
+                        not hardcoded (usually when AUTOREV was used) are reported
+                        - use the <filename>-a</filename> option to see all SRCREV
+                        values.</para></listitem>
+                    <listitem><para>The output statements may not have any effect
+                        in the face of overrides applied elsewhere in the build system
+                        configuration; use the <filename>-f</filename> option to add the
+                        <filename>forcevariable</filename> override to each output line
+                        if you need to work around this.</para></listitem>
+                    <listitem><para>The script does not do any special handling for
+                        building for multiple machines; however it does place a
+                        comment before each set of values specifying which triplet
+                        (for example <filename>emenlow-poky-linux</filename>) that they
+                        belong to as shown above.</para></listitem>
+                </itemizedlist>
+            </para>
         </section>
 
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