Where’s the conventional place to store git repositories in a linux file system tree?

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.

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