What's the best way to restart a project?

I am the main committer on a FOSS project that uses Subversion. After about
20K LoC, we've realized we need to re-architect the whole project. We want
to keep the old code around, but the new version will surely use different
Java packages and so have a different directory structure entirely.

What we want to do is make the current trunk a branch and then start a new
trunk with no files in it. We'll add files as we go. Normally, I think one
would just start a new project, but since this is hosted for us on
Subversion and we want to keep the rest of the site intact, we don't want to
create a new project.

So, the question is: What's the best way to essentially dead-end the current
trunk, keep it available (presumably as a branch), and then start a new
trunk with no files in it?

Thank you in advance for any help.

---mr. bean

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