Hi William,

This looks like the git syntax on OSX may be slightly different.  I just
tested your command on my machine.  The code to look at is vcs/git.py in
rosinstall which comes from the vcstools package.  I expect that there might
need to be a special case added for OSX.  Or there might have been a hiccup
in you connection like here?
http://answers.ros.org/question/1645/vcs-not-setup-correctly-while-i-install-ros-using

Tully

On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:28 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com> wrote:

> When running rosinstall for Electric on OS X I get this error when it gets
> to kdlclone:
>
> Installing https://kforge.ros.org/geometry/kdlcloneorocos_kinematics_dynamics-0.2.0 to
> /Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics
> Cloning into
> /Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics...
> remote: Counting objects: 2284, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (885/885), done.
> remote: Total 2284 (delta 1496), reused 2092 (delta 1363)
> Receiving objects: 100% (2284/2284), 667.50 KiB | 381 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (1496/1496), done.
> fatal: Cannot setup tracking information; starting point is not a branch.
> ERROR: Failed to install tree
> '/Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics'
>  vcs not setup correctly
>
> I am running this command:
>
> rosinstall ~/devel/ros/electric "
> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=electric&variant=desktop-full&overlay=no
> "
>
> What logs should I look at to try and resolve this?
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Auburn University
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