rosinstall - Man Page

rosinstall [options] <install-path> [rosinstall files or directories]…

–version

Show program’s version number and exit

-h, –help

Show this help message and exit

-n, –nobuild

Skip the build step for the ROS stack

–rosdep-yes

Pass through –rosdep-yes to rosmake

–continue-on-error

Continue despite checkout errors

–delete-changed-uris

Delete the local copy of a directory before changing URI.

–abort-changed-uris

Abort if changed uri detected

–backup-changed-uris=BACKUP_CHANGED

Backup the local copy of a directory before changing URI to this directory.

–generate-versioned-rosinstall=GENERATE_VERSIONED

Generate a versioned rosinstall file

The rosinstall command can download source code trees from a variety of source control systems (e.g. Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion).  The rosinstall file format lets you specify multiple source code trees, which simplifies the process of creating development workspaces.

rosinstall does the following:

1. Merges all URIs into new or existing .rosinstall file at PATH
2. Checks out or updates all version controlled URIs
3. Calls rosmake after checkout or updates
4. Generates/overwrites updated setup files

Run “rosinstall -h” to access the built-in tool documentation.

See http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosinstall for more details

Tully Foote, Thibault Kruse, Morgan Quigley, Ken Conley, Brian Gerkey

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