Linux

$HOME/Code///

I use ghq to manage cloning to get this desired structure

Personal stuff goes in ~/Projects

Work stuff goes in ~/Work/Code

Personal?

~

My homedir is a HUGE MESS.

Work?

~/src///

i.e. ~/src/github/mirantis/docker (not real I don't imagine, just an example)

~/src/bitbucket/INTERNALPROJECTCODE/coolrepo

~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>

~/Prototypes on pretty much all machines I own, from desktop, laptop, server, tablets, ebook readers, RPis, XR headset, video projector, etc.

~/Sources for stuff I'm only building from sources and no immediate intention to contribute to

~/Projects for stuff I'm involved in, with a following structure:

Projects
 - Personal
 - - Art
 - - Music
 - - Code
 - - - Ideas
 - - - In progress
 - - - Deployed
 - - - Scripts
 - - - Abandoned
 - [Company name]
 - - [Project name]
 - Interviews
 - - [Company name]

The last part grouping project by companies has worked great for me, especially with freelance and outsource work. Sorting personal projects into types and stages feels like a mistake, as every time I have to navigate it, I can't help but think of limitations of hierarchical file systems, as some of them are multiple types simultaneously, and also moving projects between stages feels dumb.

In ~/src Mostly because I'm too lazy to type "source".

Putting one directly under the home directory feels like a psychopathic move, so I stay by XDG and put them under a subdirectory of xdg-documents

~/src

~/git, for projects I cloned from the web because I don't know how to code :(

I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO GIT.

https://media.tenor.com/Te4dsU13mkMAAAAM/bernie-mac-smh.gif

C:\repos or ~/repos

Unfortunately I'm still on windows, so [User]/Documents/Projects/*

~/.projects

~/workspace/git

That way I can also keep other stuff in the same "workspace" directory and keep everything else clean

I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.

I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.

~/src/${reponame}

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

${HOME}/repos

XDG Documents folder

~/repos

All over the place...

~/git/AUR|dev|whatever/$(git clone) is where mine usually reside.

I used to use ~/devbut for years now I use ~/Workspace becaue Eclipse made me do it

~/source

/dev/null

~/code for everything I want to change/look at the source code.

~/.local/src for stuff I want to install locally from source.

~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.

~/gits

Documentation is usually a doc folder inside the repo or just a README.md for small projects.

For my personal projects I use ~/dev/projects/

For clones I use ~/dev/clones

My audio engineering stuff is at ~/audio/{samples, plugins, projects, templates}

Any naming convention is fine as long as it's meaningful to you. But it's a good idea to keep your own repos separate from the random ones you clone from the internet.

For a project called "Potato Peeler", I'll put it into a structure like this:

~/Projects/Tools/Potato-Peeler/potato-peeler/

Tools/ is just a rough category. Other categories are, for example, Games/ and Music/, because I also do gamedev and composing occasionally.

Then the capitalized Potato-Peeler/ folder, that's for me to drop in all kinds of project-related files, which I don't want to check into the repo.

And the lower-case potato-peeler/ folder is the repo then. Seeing other people's structures, maybe I'll rename that folder to repo/, and if I have multiple relevant repos for the Project, then make it repo-something.

I also have a folder like ~/Projects/Tools/zzz/ where I'll move dormant projects. The "zzz" sorts nicely to the bottom of the list.

~/dev

Like some other ppl here, I clone everything in a git folder under my home directory.

On Linux I usually just keep them in my home directory because I'm lazy. On Windows though I usually do C:\git\ or D:\git\ if I have a second drive.

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