Git Setup Best practices

Question

I was tasked with setting up Git for my office. We have several sites. I just set up a network drive for us to push our changes to. My question is: Where do I init the Git repository?

1. New dir+init for each site?
2. One init in the clean & new drive and each dir a different site?
3. Something else better that I am missing?

I seek advice from any and all, especially if you've cursed out the first guy to set it up asking "WHY"?

Answer 1

The structure of repos is not a matter if sites (whatever you want to tell with that) but a matter of projects.

As a rule of thumb:

• use ONE (bare, blessed) repo for each independent project
• if common modules are shared, realize with submodules

Within each repo, structure the work with branches, and do not confuse branches with means of organizing different software stacks: branches are used to organize the work in one repo (i.e. different development strings of ONE software). One branching model (that seems to be quite popular here at SO) is this one:

Confused? Curious? Read the explanation...

Answer 2

It's a matter of preference if you'd rather have all code bases in one git repo, or each in their own. That said, my preference would be one git repo per code base/site. That way you can work on a single site without having to check out the others, and you won't have to worry about changes to the other sites getting in the way of any commits you might push to any given site.