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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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[-] arality@programming.dev 3 points 10 hours ago

~/.projects

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 points 12 hours ago

~/src/${reponame}

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 7 points 13 hours ago

${HOME}/repos

[-] mr_satan 1 points 9 hours ago

C:\repos or ~/repos

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

~/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.

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 13 hours ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[-] muhq@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 15 hours ago

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

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

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 4 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

All over the place...

[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 13 hours ago

XDG Documents folder

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

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

[-] amzd@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago
[-] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 2 points 14 hours ago
[-] jokro@feddit.org 37 points 1 day ago
[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 3 points 17 hours ago

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}

[-] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~/src/

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

[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 day ago

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 21 points 1 day ago

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

[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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
[-] gianni@lemmy.ca 22 points 20 hours ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago
[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Same. Short and sweet.

[-] tiny@midwest.social 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] micro@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago
[-] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

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.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

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.

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 16 hours ago

~/gits

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

[-] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 day 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.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 23 hours ago

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.

[-] mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, everyone has to find their own way of organising, I guess. For me, there are too many different little projects that it would get messy throwing them all in one folder. And they’re so varied that I couldn’t think of one single “theme” or topic for most of them. Nothing I would remember a week later anyways.

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours 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
[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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
[-] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 18 hours ago

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

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Is "code", "designs" and "wiki" here just some example files in the repo or are those sub-folders, and you only have the repo underneath code?

[-] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

They are the project's subfolders (outside of the Git repo):

  • code contains the source code; version-controlled with Git.
  • wiki contains documentation and also version-controlled.
  • designs contains GIMP, Inkscape or Krita save files.

This structure works for me since software projects involve more things than just the code, and you can add more subfolders according to your liking such as notes, pkgbuild (for Arch Linux), or releases.

[-] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours 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.

[-] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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?

[-] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] vinnymac@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

~/sites

I have always used it. I liked how it was easy to find in the home directory amongst other folders. Then under that I have a folder for every organization, including myself, and repositories live in those folders.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago
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