I want to split a repository

[Eric M. Hopper]

I have a subdirectory of a repository that should be its own repository.
I would like to split that subdirectory out into a new repository that
still has the history of changes to it.  I realize the new reppository
will necessarily have all new hashes as well, but at least all the other
details of the changes will be approximately the same.

Is there an 'approved' method of doing this?

One method would be to export all the patch sets containing changes to
the subdirectory, then re-import them, handling merges specially.  This
seems laborious and error prone and I'm hoping there's a better way I
haven't thought of and/or don't know about.

Thanks,
-- 
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