Migrate Commit History?

[mmcky]

When cleaning up the API the commit history is not longer super clear from #601

For example arma.py was migrated to _arma.py (with arma.py retained to preserve backward compatibility).

Can the commit history of arma.py be concatenated to _arma.py?

[Smit-create]

I tried to save the commit history to the new file using git mv. I see that the reason it got lost is due to merge conflicts and when I resolved those conflicts manually, it somehow got messed up. I will try to look into this.

[Smit-create]

One option is that we can revert that PR and then I'll come up with a new PR fixing that in one go such that we don't have any merge conflicts.

[Smit-create]

@oyamad @mmcky Should I revert the PR and complete it in one go? such that we don't have any conflicts and merge it on priority?

[Smit-create]

I checked by merging #674 into a copy of main branch in my fork and found that the commit history is not overridden, i.e., it uses the same old commits: https://github.com/Smit-create/QuantEcon.py/tree/check_671_merge

Another solution that I found is this:

1. Revert PR MAINT: Distinguish between private and public namespaces #601 and merge it in the main.
2. Merge Fix Commit history of API changes #674 into the main and you can see the results as expected. This is how it would look: https://github.com/Smit-create/QuantEcon.py/commits/check_671_5/quantecon/_arma.py

[oyamad]

Resolved by #682