Splitting up a cookbook repo

It seems in the chef community lately there’s a growing trend for cookbooks to be kept in separate repos, or even separate branches in a single repo. I wanted to share the script I used to split out the community-cookbooks repo for Heavywater

I knew the general git commands I needed to use, but it did take a few local trial runs to get it exactly as I wanted. To create the actual repos on github I made use of the excellent hub script.

While there’s definitely a more elegant way to do this, maybe you can use this as a starting point should you need to do the same.