Split large Git repository into many smaller ones

Question

After successfully converting an SVN repository to Git, I now have a very large Git repository that I want to break down into multiple smaller repositories and maintain hist

Answer 1

Thanks for your answers but I ended up just copying the repository twice then deleting the files I didn't want from each. I am going to use the filter-branch at a later date to strip out all the commits for the deleted files since they are already version controlled elsewhere.

cp -R MyHugeRepo MyABRepo
cp -R MyHugeRepo My12Repo

cd MyABRepo/
rm -Rf DIR_1/ DIR_2/
git add -A
git commit -a

This worked for what I needed.

EDIT: Of course, the same thing was done in the My12Repo against the A and B directory. This gave me two repos with identical history up to the point I deleted the unwanted directories.