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Steps to break one large repo into multiple repos based off of DIRNAME

git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter DIRNAME master

rm -rf .git/refs/original/ && git reflog expire --all &&  git gc --aggressive --prune=now

git clean -fdx

git reflog expire --all --expire-unreachable=0
git repack -A -d
git prune
git remote rm origin
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