[chirp_devel] Old Newbie question

[Paul Schmidt]

Thanks for the reply, Dan,

I also got an email from Jim (KC9HI) with some good notes. Hopefully I'll get the RT20 up there soon. 

73,
Paul

On Sep 6, 2023, 6:28 PM, at 6:28 PM, Dan Smith via chirp_devel <chirp_devel at intrepid.danplanet.com> wrote:
>Hi Paul,
>
>> I haven't done any formal software development/maintenance for years
>> (I'm retired), and am only vaguely familiar with git (I can download
>> code with it).  Yeah, I'm from the dark ages of RCS, CVS, SVN, etc. 
>
>Me too, you're in good company, don't worry :)
>
>> I've got code to add the Retevis RT20 to the existing radtel_rt18.py
>> driver.  There's an existing (5 year old) request to add the RT20 in
>> the system (#6067).  I added to the existing request to indicate I've
>> got working code, and uploaded a .diff file (yeah, nobody does that
>any
>> more, but I didn't want the work to get lost...).
>> 
>> Is there a brief tutorial on how to submit a proposed change with
>git?
>
>It's not just git, but github you need to get familiar with. The good
>news is that there are approximately billions of github tutorials out
>there. So find one that suits your learning style (text, video, etc)
>and follow it. It's the same for CHIRP as any other github project.
>
>Roughly it will be:
>
>1. Fork my repo on github. This creates a copy of the repo for
>yourself.
>2. Clone it to your machine with git
>3. Create a topic branch from master, make your changes and commit them
>4. Push that branch up to your repo
>5. Create a pull request from your branch to my repo and wait for me to
>merge it or complain about something
>
>There's a command-line tool called "gh" which automates a lot of that
>process for you. Unless you're already used to using git exclusively,
>I'd spend a few minutes getting that and using it. I think you can
>probably fork, checkout and submit a PR completely from that tool if
>you want.
>
>--Dan
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