[ros-users] multiple released stacks in git repositories?

[Ken Conley]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Ken Tossell <ktossell at umd.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Ruben Smits
> <ruben.smits at mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>> On Wednesday 19 January 2011 07:43:20 Steven Bellens wrote:
>>> The git submodule functionality offers what you need, I think:
>
> I tried moving one stack to a submodule, and it seemed to work pretty
> well except that ros.org didn't see anything in the submod--err,
>
> Now that I look at the logs, I see that gw.willowgarage.com *did*
> clone the submodule -- once every five minutes, until three hours
> after I removed the submodule and put the stack back into the main
> repository. Two hours after that stopped, it began cloning the main
> repository twice every five minutes. At some point, the stack
> (gps_umd) disappeared from the index. (It's been 16 hours since I
> removed the submodule. From my end, all of the clone calls appear to
> have been successful.)

Our indexer just uses rosinstall, so that is one way of debugging from
your end any potential setups.

submodules are still immature.  For example, they aren't available on
pre-Lucid Ubuntu machines.

 - Ken