Re: Splitting up a repository

> Say I have a repo where there are directories repo/foo, repo/bar,
> repo/baz. 'foo', 'bar', and 'baz' are loosely related -- closely enough
> that I put them together initially, but loosely enough that I now wish I
> could check out just 'repo/foo'. Since Git doesn't support partial
> checkouts (a bit annoying!), I now have to split this repository into
> separate ones. I'd of course like to keep history.
> 
> Is there a better way than making several (recursive) copies of the
> repository, deleting all but one directory in each copy, then moving the
> contents of that directory up a level? (And perhaps setting up a Git
> superproject at the original location. I do know about that.)