diff --git a/splitting/build.gradle b/splitting/build.gradle
index c380b2c77..bf9028d41 100644
--- a/splitting/build.gradle
+++ b/splitting/build.gradle
@@ -61,6 +61,12 @@ repositories.each { targetRepo ->
 		dependsOn(generateRemovals)
 		inputs.file removalsFile
 		workingDir '..'
-		commandLine 'splitting/git-filter-branch.sh', removalsFile.path, file('.').canonicalPath
+		commandLine 'splitting/git-filter-branch.sh', removalsFile.path, file('.').canonicalPath, targetRepo
 	}
 }
+
+task(allFilterBranch) {
+	group 'Git History Manipulation'
+	description 'Runs the filter-branch tasks for all target repositories.'
+    repositories.each { dependsOn("${it}FilterBranch") }
+}
diff --git a/splitting/git-filter-branch.sh b/splitting/git-filter-branch.sh
index e7bd12306..a8ff18c30 100755
--- a/splitting/git-filter-branch.sh
+++ b/splitting/git-filter-branch.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# TODO change source branch to 'master'
+git checkout -B split-$3 msp/separateBuilds
+
 REMOVALS=`cat $1 | tr '\n' ' '`
 git filter-branch -f --prune-empty \
     --index-filter "git rm -qrf --cached --ignore-unmatch $REMOVALS" \