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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.
Same here!
Putting one directly under the home directory feels like a psychopathic move, so I stay by XDG and put them under a subdirectory of xdg-documents
Like some other ppl here, I clone everything in a git folder under my home directory.
Personal stuff goes in ~/Projects
Work stuff goes in ~/Work/Code
~/gits
Documentation is usually a doc folder inside the repo or just a README.md for small projects.
~/Prototypes on pretty much all machines I own, from desktop, laptop, server, tablets, ebook readers, RPis, XR headset, video projector, etc.
~/Source
~/Sources for stuff I'm only building from sources and no immediate intention to contribute to
~/Projects for stuff I'm involved in, with a following structure:
Projects
- Personal
- - Art
- - Music
- - Code
- - - Ideas
- - - In progress
- - - Deployed
- - - Scripts
- - - Abandoned
- [Company name]
- - [Project name]
- Interviews
- - [Company name]
The last part grouping project by companies has worked great for me, especially with freelance and outsource work. Sorting personal projects into types and stages feels like a mistake, as every time I have to navigate it, I can't help but think of limitations of hierarchical file systems, as some of them are multiple types simultaneously, and also moving projects between stages feels dumb.
~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>
~/git/AUR|dev|whatever/$(git clone) is where mine usually reside.
In ~/src Mostly because I'm too lazy to type "source".
~/source
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
Usually, I throw college assignments in a folder under documents.
~/repos
Personal?
~
My homedir is a HUGE MESS.
Work?
~/src///
i.e. ~/src/github/mirantis/docker (not real I don't imagine, just an example)
~/src/bitbucket/INTERNALPROJECTCODE/coolrepo
C:\repos or ~/repos
~/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.
~/Code for coding/dev stuff and ~/gitclone for things that i random clone for some reason. =D
~/projs
I like ~/w or ~/p options
~/github/ and ~/gitea/
Unfortunately I'm still on windows, so [User]/Documents/Projects/*
~/Dokumentujo/git
/tmp
On Linux I usually just keep them in my home directory because I'm lazy. On Windows though I usually do C:\git\ or D:\git\ if I have a second drive.