Partial git clone with relevant history

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Let's say I've written a zillion puppet modules and I have their entire history within a single git repo, but now I really wished I had made one repo per module. Divvying up the file structure is easy because each is wholly contained within their own directory and are organized like GIT_ROOT/modules/NAME.

Is there a way that I can divide this repo up and not loose the history for each module? Ideally each repo would only have history relevant to the module it represents. I tried cloning the entire thing and git rm -rf everything that's irrelevant but that retains irrelevant history.

I plan to glue them back together with git submodules, FWIW.

asked 10 secs ago

JFlo

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Partial git clone with relevant history