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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] 42 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] 27 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
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

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

Same. Short and sweet.

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[–] [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] 16 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

${HOME}/repos

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

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

[–] [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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[–] [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.

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

[–] [email protected] 10 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] 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] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

~/src/${reponame}

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 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] 6 points 1 month ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

[–] [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] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [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?

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

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[–] [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] 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] 3 points 1 month ago

All over the place...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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}

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [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] 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] 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [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
[–] [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] 2 points 1 month ago
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