[Kde-scm-interest] How to split a module

[Marco Martin]

Hi all,

For Frameworks5 we are looking into doing to plasma something similar to what 
happened to nepomuk:

split the "plasma" subdirectory of kdelibs in a separate repository, plus 
moving there also the parts related to plasma the are living in kde-runtime 
right now: the "plasma" and the "desktoptheme" subdirectories. Note that this 
won't affect immediate future releases since is something "after kf5"

in the end the various parts should conserve their history, but at the same 
time should have it quite clean of unrelated things.

what is the preferred procedure for this?
I was thinkging about filter branch for obtaining just the desired folders 
then merging the resulting repos with remotes?

(also i think would need sysadmin intervention anyways since would mean 
importing at once a repo with a lot of commits, way beyond the upper limit)

Cheers,
Marco Martin