Hi William, <br><br>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? <a href="http://answers.ros.org/question/1645/vcs-not-setup-correctly-while-i-install-ros-using">http://answers.ros.org/question/1645/vcs-not-setup-correctly-while-i-install-ros-using</a><br>

<br>Tully<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:28 PM, William Woodall <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com">wjwwood@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

When running rosinstall for Electric on OS X I get this error when it gets to kdlclone:<div><br></div><div><div>Installing <a href="https://kforge.ros.org/geometry/kdlclone" target="_blank">https://kforge.ros.org/geometry/kdlclone</a> orocos_kinematics_dynamics-0.2.0 to /Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics</div>



<div>Cloning into /Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics...</div><div>remote: Counting objects: 2284, done.</div><div>remote: Compressing objects: 100% (885/885), done.</div><div>remote: Total 2284 (delta 1496), reused 2092 (delta 1363)</div>



<div>Receiving objects: 100% (2284/2284), 667.50 KiB | 381 KiB/s, done.</div><div>Resolving deltas: 100% (1496/1496), done.</div><div>fatal: Cannot setup tracking information; starting point is not a branch.</div><div>ERROR: Failed to install tree &#39;/Users/william/devel/ros/electric/orocos_kinematics_dynamics&#39;</div>



<div> vcs not setup correctly</div></div><div><br></div><div>I am running this command:</div><div><br></div><div>rosinstall ~/devel/ros/electric &quot;<a href="http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=electric&amp;variant=desktop-full&amp;overlay=no" target="_blank">http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=electric&amp;variant=desktop-full&amp;overlay=no</a>&quot;</div>



<div><br></div><div>What logs should I look at to try and resolve this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>William Woodall<br>Graduate Software Engineering<br>Auburn University<br>



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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Tully Foote<br>Systems Engineer<br>Willow Garage, Inc.<br><a href="mailto:tfoote@willowgarage.com">tfoote@willowgarage.com</a><br>(650) 475-2827<br>