I have been a long time user of heavy weight source code version control systems like ClearCase (at work) as well as more main stream products like CVS at home. Just recently started the switch to GIT (at home) and it is taking some getting used to. Looking for some guidance on how I might use it more effectively from any power users here. Not looking for someone to teach me the basics or hold my hand (I have a book and can Google just fine), but just some general pointers.
Here is my situation. I have numerous software projects going on at any one time and perhaps 75 to 100 in archives. At some point I would like to covert my CSV repositories to GIT although I understand that it might not work too well. Some projects are for PC based code, some for Arduino, some for ARM, and some for Linux. All the code is stored on a common Linux based file server. Currently I have a folder called PROJECTS and sub folders for Linux, ARM, Arduino, and PC architectures. Under these are folders for each project. These may include sub folders.
I have started to manage new projects by creating a .git folder in each project directory. This works well, but I now have a gazillion .git directories. Would I be better served having a single GIT repository at the PROJECTS level, or four at the architecture level? Would a different directory structure be better? Help?!