newbie question: release only a few (most recent) revision of repository, but keep full history for myself. Possible?

[Peter Arrenbrecht]

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Hans Fangohr <fangohr at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> another query: I have a project that has been running for 8 years now
> (in cvs) and want to convert to hg. The conversion worked fine, so
> now I have the data in a mercurial repository Due to a change of
> people working on this, I have three things I would like to achieve:
>
> 1. I would like to have a repository that contains the complete
> repository for all those years, plus future changes (let's call this
> the 'main' branch).
>
> 2. I would like to give the most recent snap shot to other parties
> (as a hg repository, let's call this 'latest_version' for now) to
> work on. They do not need the history of the project (in fact, I
> would rather keep the history to my self if possible). Also: there
> have been some fairly large commits in the past which have later been
> removed again, so it would also be of practical value not to have to
> farm out the complete history.
>
> 3. I would like to integrate the work of the other collaborators (who
> have only the 'latest_version' repository to clone from, and to
> extend) into the 'main' branch (by pulling from their work or
> something like this).
>
> I realise that this is not a standard situation and am not sure
> whether hg can do it.

I think you're looking for this:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/TrimmingHistory

AFAIK the patch does not apply to newer versions of Hg.
-parren