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                Retaining Git history of subdirectory from parent repository
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Subdirectory Git Repository

This is a mini howto on moving a subdirectory to its own repository retaining history
Howto

Assume PARENT is the original parent Git repository (locally) and CHILD is the new local repository that you wish to create from a subdirectory, retaining all of its history from the PARENT repository; PARENT_PATH and CHILD_PATH are the paths to PARENT and CHILD respectively; SUBDIR is the relative path within the repository under extraction:

git clone --no-hardlinks PARENT_PATH CHILD_PATH
pushd CHILD_PATH