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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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[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago
[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 43 minutes ago)

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

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago
[-] arality@programming.dev 5 points 14 hours ago

~/.projects

[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago

~/src/${reponame}

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.

[-] 0x0@programming.dev 8 points 17 hours ago

${HOME}/repos

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 16 hours ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

[-] mr_satan 1 points 12 hours ago

C:\repos or ~/repos

[-] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 5 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] muhq@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 18 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.

[-] jokro@feddit.org 41 points 1 day ago
[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

All over the place...

[-] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 3 points 18 hours ago
[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago

XDG Documents folder

[-] amzd@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago
[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

[-] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 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 21 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 23 points 23 hours ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 1 points 20 hours ago
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[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 3 points 20 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}

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 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.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago
[-] tiny@midwest.social 1 points 18 hours ago
[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 1 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] micro@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago
[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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

[-] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 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.

[-] 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 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day 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 13 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.

[-] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 8 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
[-] 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.

[-] poinck@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago

~/gits

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

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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
[-] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 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 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 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.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah, interesting. In my current setup, I dump the auxilliary files into a folder above the repo, but it can certainly make it a bit messy to find the repo in there then...

[-] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 22 hours ago

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

[-] 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 21 hours ago

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[-] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day 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.

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