vcstools/rosinstall — pull request #83 by eacousineau (2013-05-29 06:36:58+00:00)
Title: Allow for gitfile mechanism for submodules

Changed detect_presence() to use os.path.exist() for git to accomodate gitfile mechanism.
Tried it out by recursively cloning a supermodule, then running the following command:

git submodule-ext --no-cd 'rosws set -y $path --git $(cd $path && git config remote.origin.url)'

(NOTE: git submodule-ext is a modded command here: https://github.com/eacousineau/util)
Worked for updating branches.

This would allow users to initialize a workspace inside a supermodule if they choose and still be able to update submodules it via `rosws update`.

Goal here was trying to bridge between rosinstall (bulk install, familiarity) and git submodules (granularity for tracking precise commits, url updating, etc.)
Maybe this would be useful if the non-git repos are cloned with remote-helpers or in ignored?