NOTES.md

Setup

I suggest everyone make the catkin workspace first and then from there moving the files into the appropriate directories because cloning a whole catkin workspace also clones a bunch of paths in the CMakeCache.txt ( and other files ) i.e. We should instead push and pull at the src and/or package level since catkin will create many instances of :

/home/USERNAME/PATH/TO/WORKSPACE/various_files_needed_for_catkin_make

within the build directory when you first do catkin_make

I tried running

grep -rli '\/home\/USERNAME\/PATH\/TO\/WORKSPACE' * | xargs -i@ sed -i 's/\/home\/USERNAME\/PATH\/TO\/WORKSPACE/~/g' @

but anytime you wish to catkin_make it will complain with :

CMake Error: The source "/home/USERNAME/PATH/TO/WORKSPACE/SRC-Phase2/src/CMakeLists.txt" does not match the source "~/SRC-Phase2/src/CMakeLists.txt" used to generate cache.  Re-run cmake with a different source directory.

For convenience :

cd /home/USERNAME/PATH/TO/Workspace

mkdir -p SRC-Phase2/src
cd SRC-Phase2/src
catkin_init_workspace
cd ../
catkin_make

cd src

catkin_create_pkg csi_rover_gazebo
catkin_create_pkg csi_rover_description
catkin_create_pkg csi_rover_controls

When I tested it, it didn't overwrite the packages made from git. Now all the git stuff can be done comfortably.

Now git clone and mv all the files into the appropriate directories