opscode/chef — pull request #1228 by lamont-granquist (2014-01-21 19:30:58+00:00)
Title: CHEF-4810: metadata.json should take precedence over metadata.rb

change cookbook_version_loader to take an option to ignore
metadata.rb, use that in cookbook_loader to ignore metadata.rb.

idea is to leave knife semantics as-is but change chef-client to
ignore metadata.rb