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Instead of including the .rosinstall file, it is a much better practice to include the original rosinstall file (no dot prefix). The .rosinstall file encodes information about a specific installation on a specific machine. The original rosinstall file can be safely used to generate any number of installations on multiple machines.

Instead of including the .rosinstall file, it is a much better practice to include the original rosinstall file (no dot prefix). The .rosinstall file encodes information about a specific installation on a specific machine. The original rosinstall file can be safely used to generate any number of installations on multiple machines.

Most VCSs allow you to pull individual files by url.

Then you can write your install instructions like this:

rosinstall ~/my_project /opt/ros/diamondback 'http://my_vcs_server/path_to_file.rosinstall'

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