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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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[-] jokro@feddit.org 42 points 3 weeks ago
[-] mlfh@lemmy.ml 28 points 3 weeks ago

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[-] data1701d@startrek.website 24 points 3 weeks 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 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 28 points 3 weeks ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

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[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Same. Short and sweet.

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[-] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~/src/

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

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 16 points 3 weeks ago
[-] 0x0@programming.dev 11 points 3 weeks ago

${HOME}/repos

[-] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[-] Flamekebab@piefed.social 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

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[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks 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 2 points 3 weeks 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 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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
[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] arality@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] hawdini@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

Similar, but I’m not ashamed of having my projects on display, so it’s just ~/projects for me.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 7 points 3 weeks ago

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
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[-] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

~/src/${reponame}

[-] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

[-] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[-] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] amzd@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] muhq@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks 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 5 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[-] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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
[-] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks 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}

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

All over the place...

[-] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

[-] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] abrahambelch@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

XDG Documents folder

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] zongor@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] pudcollar@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] mr_satan 2 points 3 weeks ago

C:\repos or ~/repos

[-] samwwwblack@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks 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.

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