Incidentally, I initiated the repo transfer to JuliaStats, but got no reply. If it somehow expired, I am happy to do it again.

What's holding this up?

@nalimilan: apparently I need permissions on JuliaStats to make the transfer, can you add me?

I don't know how to preserve the git history.

@nalimilan: apparently I need permissions on JuliaStats to make the transfer, can you add me?

Yes the person doing the transfer needs to be an owner of both source and destination. I've sent you an invitation.

I don't know how to preserve the git history.

See explanations here for example: JuliaLang/julia#31395 (comment)

Thanks. I made the transfer, but currently have no time for the git history operation. If anyone wants to do it, please do not hesitate.

I opened a PR to the registry as well (JuliaRegistries/General#30590), following the instructions in https://github.com/JuliaRegistries/General#how-do-i-transfer-a-package-to-an-organization-or-another-user.

OK, I've run git-filter-repo --path src/basicfuns.jl --path test/basicfuns.jl on the StatsFuns repo, fetched it as a branch in LogSumExpFunctions, rebased master on top of it, and pushed it to the StatsFuns-rebased branch.

But that's not ideal as another commit synced against StatsFuns later so the diff is backwards. So I pushed another StatsFuns-rebased2 branch in which I squashed the few initial commits up to the sync. This gives a much cleaner diff. What do you think? I guess we should keep existing commits somewhere since releases point to them, but we could start from there for the new main?

I am not sure what's the best approach to keep/transfer some git history. Since there are already releases of LogExpFunctions in the general registry that point to commits in the repo it seems we shouldn't touch the existing commits? So even though I would prefer if the history could be kept, I am not sure if it can be done in a clean way. Maybe one could add a commit that removes all contents in the LogExpFunctions repo, then add a copy of the StatsFuns files, and afterwards re-apply the current commits in the LogExpFunctions repo rebased on the copy (but maybe without the sync commit)?

I went for a simpler but less sophisticated approach (i.e. more work 😄): I extracted the git history of the relevant files with git filter-repo and merged it with the updated docstrings in LogExpFunctions manually. This preserves all existing commits and history in LogExpFunctions but also adds the git history from StatsFuns. I opened a PR: JuliaStats/LogExpFunctions.jl#11