--skip-existing option should skip existing non-git directories during import

I’m using vcs import src < repos.txt for a ROS workspace to pull in dependencies. I would like to have a feature where I can skip one or more repositories.

The reason for this feature is when you’re building a docker image and use the import you could skip a folder which is already in your workspace (same repo but for example without a .git folder). --skip-existing could be used if there was an additional parameter to even ignore different url (in CI/CD the for the current directory can be different).

[eliasdc]

This time it did work, thanks.

#15 18.44 === src/repo1 (git) ===
#15 18.44 Skipped existing directory
#15 18.44 === src/repo2 (git) ===
#15 18.44 Cloning into '.'...
#15 18.44 === src/sensors/sensorA (git) ===
#15 18.44 Cloning into '.'...
#15 18.44 Switched to a new branch 'refactor'
#15 18.44 Branch 'refactor' set up to track remote branch 'test' from 'origin'.
#15 18.44 === src/sensors/sensorB (git) ===
#15 18.44 Cloning into '.'...
#15 18.44 Switched to a new branch 'test'

[dirk-thomas]

This time I took the time to reproduce your use case (which I should have done in the first place) and I think I got it right. Thanks for your patience and hoping you can try it again.