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Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:

> My question, in this case is there any reason (such as git creating home 
> directoriy temp files or something) why each developer could not have their 
> home directory as the root of all the repositories (ie where my git user in 
> the above example had its home directory).

Do you mean to reuse single directory /home/gitu/ for user A, B, C,
and hang repositories /home/gitu/{X,Y,Z} for projects?  I'd
imagine things could be arranged that way.  User A and B but not
C may be in "projectX" group and /home/gitu/X is writable only
by projectX group members and such...