I currently have a git repository that I imported from svn a while ago name school. Inside this school repository I have a folder for each of my classes.
I can't seem how to take this one repository and split it into a repository for each class without losing the entire history of the class, which I would prefer not to do.
Suggestions?
Run the following command
git log -u <path>
This will give you a list of changesets (including diff) for each changeset in the specified folder.
From here, you can write a script to parse that output of git log and run each patch on a new repository, keeping the changesets and author info.
Bit of a hack, but it will work.
git filter-branch is the way to go. Make a copy of the repo for each subdirectory, then in each copy run a line like this replacing "myclassname" with your actual class name:
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter myclassname -- --all