[chirp_devel] Old Newbie question

[Paul L Schmidt]

With a lot of assistance from KC9HI, I *think* I got everything up into
github to get the Retevis RT20 into Chirp.  Advise advise if I need to
do anything else.  Still learning :-) 

On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 15:27 -0700, Dan Smith via chirp_devel 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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