gradual removal of history

Dear all,


We have a project branch (2.0) that is the main development branch for  
a project.  The project management have kept 2.0 open for thousands of  
deltas so far and would like to keep it open for thousands more.  The  
build number as seen by our customers is tightly bound to the branch's  
delta number.

The storage for the containing project is becoming unwieldy.  I am  
wondering about ways we could discard the N oldest deltas, where N  
might be several hundred.  (It might, however, be 1.)  Studying the  
documentation I can see some ways we might approach this, but they all  
look something like this:

  - create a new project
  - use aedist to 'replay' the (N+1)st delta from the old project with  
--entire-source to the new one
  - use aedist to 'replay' the N+2nd deltas onward from the old  
project to the new project, one by one
  - rename the old project leaving us with a backup (following the  
HOWTO document)
  - rename/move the new project to the same name as the old one

Is there another (perhaps simpler) way we remove the oldest bits of  
history of a project in place?  You can assume we don't care about (or  
don't have) branches other than 2.0, so that  the edit numbers of all  
the files correspond only to changes in the 2.0 branch.


Best regards,

David Vincent

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David A Vincent
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