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Personally, to keep my documents like Inkscape files or LibreOffice documents separate from my code, I add a directory under my home directory called Development. There, I can do git clones to my heart's content

What do you all do?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

~/github/ and ~/gitea/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

/mnt/external_ssd_1/git_repos/reponame

i trust my workstations os to still be working in the morning as much as i trust the chances i even published the stupid branch after making it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~/Projects/$TOPIC_OR_LANGUAGE/$PROJECT_NAME

ie.

  • ~/Projects/Web/passport.ink for a web dev project
  • ~/Projects/Minecraft/synthetic_ascension for a Minecraft mod
  • ~/Projects/C++/journalpp for a C++ library
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~/src/

Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

~/Dokumentujo/git

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

/mnt/shared/Development or E:\Development depending on which operating system is running.

Not in home mainly because I use the same directory in windows and Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

~/Code for coding/dev stuff and ~/gitclone for things that i random clone for some reason. =D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~/git/vendor/<gitUser>/<repo>

and

~/git/<myName>/<forge>/<user>/<repo>

Examples:

~/git/vendor/EnigmaCurry/d.rymcg.tech
~/git/mike/forgejo/mikew/myproject
~/git/mike/github/johndoe/otherProject
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Like others, I have a folder in my home directory called "Code." Most operating systems encourage you to organize digital files by category (documents, photos, music, videos). Anything that doesn't fit into those categories gets its own new directory. This is especially important for me, as all my folders except Code are synced to NextCloud.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

~/code/git/<org name>/<project>

Mostly a holdover from when I regularly pulled svn/hg/cvs repos and needed reminding what tool to use for which project.

No idea why I still do it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same! I also have a separate directory for college assignments and stuff. Gonna set up separate gitconfigs for both soon, so there is a smaller chance of mixing up my credentials

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Usually, I throw college assignments in a folder under documents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Usually ~/devel/

On my work laptop I have separate subdirs for each project and basically try to mirror the Gitlab group/project structure because some fucktards like to split every project into 20 repos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have $HOME/src for projects that are executables and $HOME/lib for ones that are libraries/dependancies/etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

~/projs

I like ~/w or ~/p options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use ~/w for "Work" and less typing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (3 children)

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Admittedly, that irks me slightly just because of the shared name with the devices folder in root, but do what works for you.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I actually have my whole home directory like that for that reason haha

bin - executables
dev - development, git projects
doc - documents
etc - symlinks to all the local user configs
med - pictures, music, videos
mnt - usb/sd mountpoints
nfs - nfs mountpoints
smb - smb mountpoints
src - external source code
tmp - desktop
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Same. Short and sweet.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use ~/workspace . I think I got this from when I first started using Java years ago. Eclipse created new projects in this directory by default maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Same, but by language, e.g. Development/Python.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thinking of the projects I work on, I don't understand the value in categorizing by language, rather than theme (~/Development/Web/, ~/Development/Games/) or just the project folders right there.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

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