Question

As it turns out, this question asked the same thing Detach (move) subdirectory into separate Git repository

I decided to learn git and to keep my programming homework in a git repo. I think it was a good idea. Now I’m wondering about something:

I had a single git repo with a subdirectory for each assignment. I’m wondering if there’s a sane way to make each of the subdirectories into its own git repo, retaining the history associated with those files. It seems like “git filter-branch –subirectory-filter” is part of the answer, but I’m not sure what to do.

EDIT

To clarify: My structure is like this

superdir  
  .git  
  subdir1
  subdir2
  subdir3

I’d like my structure to be more like this

superdir    
  subdir1
    .git
  subdir2
    .git
  subdir3
    .git

Can I do it?

Answer 1

You’re probably looking for git submodules, but I’d just change your layout to have the top level not be a git repo and just have the subdir repos managed independently.