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By default, workspaces overlay /opt/ros/<version> so sourcing the second workspace is overwriting the first. Add --extend to your second source command and this should work. See this tutorial for more information.

PS: you shouldn't need to clone the source for tf as it can be installed as a binary package with sudo apt-get install ros-melodic-tf.

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