Ivan,
What version of git are you using?  Are you on a version of Ubuntu I could test?  I'm on lucid 64.

Tully

{{{
tfoote@bgt:/tmp$ em t.ri
tfoote@bgt:/tmp$ rosinstall t /opt/ros/cturtle t.ri
rosinstall operating on /tmp/t from specifications in rosinstall files  /opt/ros/cturtle, t.ri
processing config_uri /opt/ros/cturtle
Installing /tmp/t/ccny-ros-pkg to http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/git/ccny-ros-pkg.git ICRA2011
Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/t/ccny-ros-pkg/.git/
Branch ICRA2011 set up to track remote branch ICRA2011 from origin.
Switched to a new branch 'ICRA2011'
other config element is a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/ros
other config element is not a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks
other config element is a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/ros
other config element is not a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks
Bootstraping ROS build
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['rostest']                                                                                       
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/u/tfoote/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20101008-100255                                                 
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['rostest'] to:
['rostest']                                                                                 
[ rosmake ] Generating Install Script using rosdep then executing. This may take a minute, you will be prompted for permissions. . .  
executing this script:
 set -o errexit
#No Packages to install
[ rosmake ] rosdep successfully installed all system dependencies                                                                     
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> roslib [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< roslib ROS_NOBUILD in package roslib                                                                         
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> rosclean [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< rosclean ROS_NOBUILD in package rosclean                                                                     
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> rosgraph [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< rosgraph ROS_NOBUILD in package rosgraph                                                                     
[rosmake-5] Starting >>> roslang [ make ]                                                                                             
[rosmake-5] Finished <<< roslang ROS_NOBUILD in package roslang
 No Makefile in package roslang                                       
[rosmake-6] Starting >>> rosmaster [ make ]                                                                                           
[rosmake-6] Finished <<< rosmaster ROS_NOBUILD in package rosmaster                                                                   
[rosmake-6] Starting >>> xmlrpcpp [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-6] Finished <<< xmlrpcpp ROS_NOBUILD in package xmlrpcpp                                                                     
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> rosconsole [ make ]                                                                                          
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< rosconsole ROS_NOBUILD in package rosconsole                                                                 
[rosmake-7] Starting >>> rospy [ make ]                                                                                               
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> roscpp [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-7] Finished <<< rospy ROS_NOBUILD in package rospy                                                                           
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< roscpp ROS_NOBUILD in package roscpp                                                                         
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> rosout [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< rosout ROS_NOBUILD in package rosout                                                                         
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> roslaunch [ make ]                                                                                           
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< roslaunch ROS_NOBUILD in package roslaunch
 No Makefile in package roslaunch                                 
[rosmake-7] Starting >>> rostest [ make ]                                                                                             
[rosmake-7] Finished <<< rostest ROS_NOBUILD in package rostest                                                                       
[ rosmake ] Results:                                                                                                                  
[ rosmake ] Built 14 packages with 0 failures.                                                                                        
[ rosmake ] Summary output to directory                                                                                               
[ rosmake ] /u/tfoote/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20101008-100255                                                                     

done. Now, type 'source /tmp/t/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.


tfoote@bgt:/tmp$ rosinstall t
rosinstall operating on /tmp/t from specifications in rosinstall files  /tmp/t/.rosinstall
Installing /tmp/t/ccny-ros-pkg to http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/git/ccny-ros-pkg.git ICRA2011
Already up-to-date.
other config element is a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/ros
other config element is not a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks
other config element is a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/ros
other config element is not a ros path /opt/ros/cturtle/stacks
Bootstraping ROS build
[ rosmake ] Packages requested are: ['rostest']                                                                                       
[ rosmake ] Logging to directory/u/tfoote/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20101008-100309                                                 
[ rosmake ] Expanded args ['rostest'] to:
['rostest']                                                                                 
[ rosmake ] Generating Install Script using rosdep then executing. This may take a minute, you will be prompted for permissions. . .  
executing this script:
 set -o errexit
#No Packages to install
[ rosmake ] rosdep successfully installed all system dependencies                                                                     
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> roslib [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< roslib ROS_NOBUILD in package roslib                                                                         
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> rosclean [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< rosclean ROS_NOBUILD in package rosclean                                                                     
[rosmake-0] Starting >>> rosgraph [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-0] Finished <<< rosgraph ROS_NOBUILD in package rosgraph                                                                     
[rosmake-5] Starting >>> roslang [ make ]                                                                                             
[rosmake-5] Finished <<< roslang ROS_NOBUILD in package roslang
 No Makefile in package roslang                                       
[rosmake-5] Starting >>> rospy [ make ]                                                                                               
[rosmake-5] Finished <<< rospy ROS_NOBUILD in package rospy                                                                           
[rosmake-1] Starting >>> rosmaster [ make ]                                                                                           
[rosmake-1] Finished <<< rosmaster ROS_NOBUILD in package rosmaster                                                                   
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> xmlrpcpp [ make ]                                                                                            
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< xmlrpcpp ROS_NOBUILD in package xmlrpcpp                                                                     
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> rosconsole [ make ]                                                                                          
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< rosconsole ROS_NOBUILD in package rosconsole                                                                 
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> roscpp [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< roscpp ROS_NOBUILD in package roscpp                                                                         
[rosmake-2] Starting >>> rosout [ make ]                                                                                              
[rosmake-2] Finished <<< rosout ROS_NOBUILD in package rosout                                                                         
[rosmake-6] Starting >>> roslaunch [ make ]                                                                                           
[rosmake-6] Finished <<< roslaunch ROS_NOBUILD in package roslaunch
 No Makefile in package roslaunch                                 
[rosmake-6] Starting >>> rostest [ make ]                                                                                             
[rosmake-6] Finished <<< rostest ROS_NOBUILD in package rostest                                                                       
[ rosmake ] Results:                                                                                                                  
[ rosmake ] Built 14 packages with 0 failures.                                                                                        
[ rosmake ] Summary output to directory                                                                                               
[ rosmake ] /u/tfoote/.ros/rosmake/rosmake_output-20101008-100309                                                                     

done. Now, type 'source /tmp/t/setup.sh' to set up your environment.
Add that to the bottom of your ~/.bashrc to set it up every time.


tfoote@bgt:/tmp$ git --version
git version 1.7.0.4
}}}

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Ivan Dryanovski <ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm sorry to go back to this thread, but I am still having issues with
the rosinstall tool.

I have the following lines in my rosconfig file that I am passing to
ROS Install:

- git:
   uri: http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/git/ccny-ros-exp.git
   version: master
   local-name: ccny-ros-exp
- git:
   uri: http://robotics.ccny.cuny.edu/git/ccny-ros-pkg.git
   version: ICRA2011
   local-name: ccny-ros-pkg

The first on works fine. When the installer attempts to check out the
he second one, it produces this error:

fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
branches/forcing
Did you intend to checkout 'ICRA2011' which can not be resolved as commit?
ERROR: Failed to install tree '/home/idryanov/icra2011_ccny/ccny-ros-pkg'
 vcs not setup correctly.

A quick search on the issue gives me this:

http://www.skrinakcreative.com/wp/2008/11/fatal-git-checkout-problem-resolved/

The comments suggest pulling first, and then checking out the desired
branch. How does rosinstall handle it?
Any help would be appreciated

Ivan

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Ivan Dryanovski
> <ivan.dryanovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I ran into an svn versioning issue.
>>
>> I am using the following command to get the svn revisions:
>>
>> ./unwrap_externals.py
>> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/externals/latest/ >
>> icra2011_dryanovski.rosconfig
>
> You probably want to unwrap the cturtle external instead, e.g.:
>
> ./unwrap_externals.py
> https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/externals/distro/cturtle/all >
> icra2011_dryanovski.rosconfig
>
> In general, you'd want to unwrap the external from which you'd checked
> out the code.
>
> Now that I think about it, there's a potential mismatch between the
> version currently pointed to by the external and the version that was
> used.    A while back, I wrote a script to rummage over your
> ROS_PACKAGE_PATH, and produce a rosinstall file that would check out
> the same stuff that you currently have checked out (assuming that it
> all came from SVN).  I can't find that script now, but it would be
> easy to reproduce.
>
> But still we're talking about doing work from a source-based install,
> which is (hopefully) becoming less common as the binary packages are
> gaining traction (at least for people running Ubuntu).
>
> It seems like, to record the software that makes up your experimental
> environment, you need to know:
>  * the versions of all released stacks in use
>  * the svn/git/bzr/hg URI and revision/branch/hash info for everything else.
> (To be complete, you could record the version of the Linux kernel and
> so on, but we have to bottom out somewhere.)  So perhaps we need a
> tool that gathers that information....
>
>        brian.
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