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An idea of how to split up some files in order to create a new repo
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##Split some files out of repo keeping his history

In order to promote a subset of files to make an external library/module which will be contained by some package manager like npm.

This enable the reuse of this module in another repo using a package manager

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splitfb.sh
git filter-branch -f --prune-empty --index-filter ' \
git ls-tree -r --name-only --full-tree $GIT_COMMIT | \
grep -v framebuffer | \
xargs -r git rm --cached -r --ignore-unmatch' -- --all
#to delete remote backup references
rm -r .git/refs/original
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