Ignore and update changed URIs

[jayvdb]

wstool up has lots of options to handle changed URIs, but the two I am most interested are missing.

The most important is to ignore the fact that the URI is different; I happen to know that they are different URIs to the same repo, often with .git at the end, or switched to ssh vs http etc.

Another is to update the repo config's URI to match the .rosinstall URI.

[tkruse]

Can you explain more why this is not sufficiently well supported by manually changing the .rosinstall or the repo configuration? Those seem to be one-off tasks, and even if wstool had those features, most users would probably not know and make such changes manually anyway, the one time in their lives they need to.

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[jayvdb]

Firstly, this has nothing to do with changing the .rosinstall.

Sometimes I have different remotes in some of my repositories, like if I have had to switch to ssh, temporarily.
I dont want to backup, as I know that my altered URI may be strictly different, but it is either semantically identical, or it differs only by protocol, in which case it is logically identical.

It would be nice to be able to overwrite (update) those remotes to be the same as .rosinstall. A sync operation. Effectively the oppose of a scrape.

Or, rather than touch the local repository's config, up could (if instructed by the user) ignore the fact they are different and attempt to use the different URI.

[tkruse]

Maybe we can also consider extending the comparison, so that ssh and non ssh are considered equal. Could that solve your problems?

[jayvdb]

Doesnt solve my "update" request, forcing .rosinstall URIs into the repos.

[dirk-thomas]

Closing since the repository is about to be archived: see #154.