[Users] GetComponent requests "clean checkout"

[alexander.beck-ratzka]

Hi Folks,

I would like agree to Luca in that sense that such an error should not 
be a fatal one. However, a user must be informed that a checkout of a 
repository has failed. This mus be ensured. I am not that expert in 
GetComponents to know whether simfactory creates always log file. As far 
as I know it only writes message to the console, and if the buffer of te 
console is to small, a user might get lost of the message text.

Best wishes

Alexander
> Hello,
>
> I have a comment/request on this error message from GetComponents:
>
>
>   >   ./bin/GetComponents --update --verbose
> [...]
> Error: The URL for KrancNumericalTools/GenericFD has changed, please
> perform a clean checkout.
>
>
>
> After showing the below error message, GetComponents stopped. But maybe
> a user doesn't want to perform a clean checkout every time such a
> mismatch occurs. I suggest to change the error message so that it
> instructs the users to solve the problem (by manually checking out the
> new repository) and then rerun GetComponents. Even better, GetComponents
> could do something like renaming the old checkout "thorn" to "thorn.old"
> and checking out the new repository.
>
> In any case, it would be useful if this error could be made non-fatal,
> namely if one could continue to update of the other thorns even without
> the failed thorn.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers,
> Luca
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