Re: gnuplot 1.0

[Ethan A M. <me...@uw...>]

On Friday, 4 April 2025 09:59:31 PDT Dima Kogan wrote:
> 
> Ethan A Merritt <me...@uw...> writes:
> 
> > [~/git/gnuplot-main] git checkout --detach 1.1
> > HEAD is now at 2f87cf77c Content from historic/gnuplot-1.1.tar.gz
> > =========================================================
> >
> > But I have no idea how to add this version 1.0 snapshot to the
> > repository so that it matches the others. Does anyone know an
> > appropriate set of git commands?
> 
> If you insert the new 1.0 code into the tree, that will change all the
> commit IDs downstream of it (i.e. everything we're actively working on
> now). So I'd add 1.0 by itself in its own root. So 1.1 wouldn't be a
> child of 1.0, but since this is all for historical archiving, that
> doesn't really matter.
> 
> You can do this by
> 
> - Creating a brand-new repo (let's say in /tmp/gnuplot1), and adding the
>   gnuplot 1.0 code and the "1.0" tag there
> 
> - In your main gnuplot tree, add this as a remote
> 
>   git remote add gnuplot1 /tmp/gnuplot1
>   git fetch gnuplot1
> 
> Now the "1.0" tag has been ingested into your tree, and if you "git push
> --tags", you'll send all your tags (including this one) to sourceforge.
> That's it.

Thanks.   I messed up a couple of times but eventually got it.  I think.

   Ethan