Split large Git repository into many smaller ones

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This will setup MyABRepo; you can do My12Repo similarly of course.

git clone MyHugeRepo/ MyABRepo.tmp/
cd MyABRepo.tmp
git filter-branch --prune-empty --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch DIR_1/* DIR_2/*' HEAD

A reference to .git/refs/original/refs/heads/master remains. You can remove that up with:

cd ..
git clone MyABRepo.tmp MyABRepo

If all went well you can then remove MyABRepo.tmp.

If for some reason you get an error regarding .git-rewrite, you can try this:

git clone MyHugeRepo/ MyABRepo.tmp/
cd MyABRepo.tmp
git filter-branch -d /tmp/git-rewrite.tmp --prune-empty --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch DIR_1/* DIR_2/*' HEAD 
cd ..
git clone MyABRepo.tmp MyABRepo

This will create and use /tmp/git-rewrite.tmp as a temporary directory, instead of .git-rewrite.
Naturally, you can substitute any path you wish instead of /tmp/git-rewrite.tmp, so long as you have write permission, and the directory does not already exist.

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