[chirp_devel] Help, please: Handholding for adding a file to chirp drivers

[Tom Hayward]

On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 4:51 PM, NNN Wx via chirp_devel
<chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
> *grumble* I need help to manage to add a file in mercurial/mq so I can send
> it y’all.
>
> "hg stat” sees that I have a new file in the drivers directory:
>
> $ hg stat
> ? chirp/drivers/ft2d.py
>
> “hg export” shows my comment and metadata of sorts:
>
> hg export tip
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Declan Rieb <nthreewx at gmail.com>
> # Date 1498951152 21600
> #      Sat Jul 01 17:19:12 2017 -0600
> # Node ID 0b3fa805a0993cbb9d593d236242202ad1d6b7f7
> # Parent  0b2aaa54f3082a8fe735b4e32091466c50b9900b
> [ft2d] Add support for Yaesu FT2DR. #3257 #3325 #3887
>
> But… there’s no patch information added to the end!
>
> “hg diff” shows, well, nothing.

I think the issue is the the instructions are written for making
changes to files, and you're trying to add a files. To add the new
file to the patch, try this:

hg add chirp/drivers/ft2.dpy
hg qref
hg export tip


Tom KD7LXL