VCS Tool Example

VCS can be used to clone multiple projects from a list of repositories.

Installation

To install, run

sudo apt install python3-vcstool

Usage

• Create YAML type file to list repositores. See repos.yml
• Clone the content

mkdir -p vcs_tool_example_ws/src
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/h2020faros/vcs_tool_example/main/repos.yml -P vcs_tool_example_ws
vcs import vcs_tool_example_ws/src < vcs_tool_example_ws/repos.yml

• Check everything got cloned

ls vcs_tool_example_ws/src

• Possibly install dependencies via rosdep

cd vcs_tool_example_ws
rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -r -y

• Build

colcon build

Links

• Foxy source checkout
• VCS Tool Github