Where's the conventionnal place to store git repositories in a linux file system tree?

Question

If I make an analogy with the hosting of a web server, I would say that git's data should be in /var/git, so my git repository would be in /var/git/myrepo

Q: Is that the right guess ?

Answer 1

There is no right or wrong answer here, except the one dictated by your own personal religion and the contents of the hier(7) manpage on your system.

typical Linux hier manpage ; typical BSD hier manpage)

/var/git/* seems reasonable to me personally. That's where I keep mine.

Answer 2

Place it in a directory (or shared filesystem) under /srv. This is what it's for.

The /srv directory is intended for site-specific data served by the system. From the standard:

This main purpose of specifying this is so that users may find the location of the data files for particular service, and so that services which require a single tree for readonly data, writable data and scripts (such as cgi scripts) can be reasonably placed. Data that is only of interest to a specific user should go in that users' home directory.

The methodology used to name subdirectories of /srv is unspecified as there is currently no consensus on how this should be done. One method for structuring data under /srv is by protocol, eg. ftp, rsync, www, and cvs. On large systems it can be useful to structure /srv by administrative context, such as /srv/physics/www, /srv/compsci/cvs, etc. This setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on a specific subdirectory structure of /srv existing or data necessarily being stored in /srv. However /srv should always exist on FHS compliant systems and should be used as the default location for such data.

Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these directories without administrator permission.

Answer 3

It's entirely up to you. Optimally, though, you should put the git data dir on a separate partition or even disk to make system upgrades etc. easier and of course, you have to make sure that there is enough disk space available.

Answer 4

As voretaq7 said, there is no right or wrong answer on such a subject. However, if you want to follow of softs, it seems that database softs store their data in

/var/lib/soft

For example, for Postgresql 9.1 on debian the folder is

/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/

So I would personnaly choose

/var/lib/git

Answer 5

If you use some frontend to git, just go with wherever the one packaged by your distribution wants to place them. Anything else is just creating needless incompatibilities.