Adam,
You could use svn:external tricks, to preserve space but get a specific
version.
Tully
On 07/15/2010 04:53 PM, Kevin Watts wrote:
> You can make your own URDF file using the macros in pr2_description
> without copying the macros. If you only want to copy one macro, you
> could copy that into your new package, modify it, and just include it
> in your final URDF file.
>
> The pr2_component_descriptions package does this to make URDF's for
> PR2 components and sub-assemblies.
>
> I'm not sure how to solve the problem of loading the pr2.urdf.xacro
> file at startup, that will depend on how you want to set up your
> configuration.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Adam Leeper <aleeper@stanford.edu
> <mailto:aleeper@stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> Say I want to modify pr2_description. Also say I want to check my
> modifications into a repository for easy access. As far as I can
> tell, I need to check in the entire pr2_description folder into
> the repo in order to be able to easily check it out on another
> comp and have it work immediately as an overlay. The mesh and
> various other files are rather large, at 57MB total.
>
> Is there any easy way for me to overlay the pr2.urdf.xacro file,
> and maybe also some custom .urdf.xacro files for sensors, without
> keeping multiple copies of the meshes floating around? It seems
> like right now if a launch file, such as pr2_bringup.launch, can
> find pr2.urdf.xacro in a custom copy of pr2_description, then by
> definition it will also look in that same path when looking for
> the meshes, etc.
>
> Any ideas on a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Adam
>
>
>
> Adam Leeper
> Stanford University
> aleeper@stanford.edu <mailto:aleeper@stanford.edu>
> 719.358.3804
>
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