Github used to limit the number of public repos. As such, I had all of my CPAN modules as subdirectories of a single repo. This script iterates through those directories and imports the directory into the new repo after renaming the repo to match the Debian perl module package naming.

split-out-repo.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# from https://help.github.com/articles/splitting-a-subpath-out-into-a-new-repository
#

for CHILD in Conan Copy-From-Git Net-Domain-Regex Net-Domain-Match Net-PortTest
do
  cd /tmp
  rm -rf /tmp/Perl-CPAN
  git clone [email protected]:petermblair/Perl-CPAN.git && cd Perl-CPAN
  git filter-branch --prune-empty --subdirectory-filter $CHILD master

  NEWNAME=$(printf "libperl-%s\n" $( echo $CHILD | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] ) )
  #git remote add origin [email protected]:petermblair/${NEWNAME}.git
  # [email protected]:petermblair/Perl-CPAN.git
  perl -p -i -e "s/Perl-CPAN.git/${NEWNAME}.git/g" .git/config
  git push -u origin master
done