Should "west init" run "west clone"?

Right now, installing multi-repo Zephyr takes the following steps:

$ pip install west
$ west init <west-workspace>
$ cd <west-workspace>
$ west fetch

This issue tracks whether “west init” should run “west fetch” as well after cloning west and the manifest, to eliminate the last step before a complete installation is cloned.

I am ambivalent about this idea (generally speaking I don’t like to add features to the bootstrapper) but thought it was worth recording the question (and its resolution along with rationale).

Reasons for:

• one less step during installation

Reasons against:

• adds a feature to the bootstrapper which is not necessary
• users might want to fetch with different options than can be passed to init, e.g. to fetch a subset of available projects
• fetch might require different credentials than init, which might not be available at init time

[tejlmand]

I think we should keep west init and west update seperate.

Reason: It allows users to do west init and then actually adjust west.yml to their needs if they wish so, before running west update

If users wants a one step approach, they can do: west init; west update or west init && west update depending on their platform.

[mbolivar]

Alright, I’m going to close this again since we all seem to agree, or at least nobody disagrees out loud 😃