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?
Most of my code and some non-code is under
~/src
, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.~/src/
Simple, effective, doesn’t make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.
~/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
~/Source
~/git
~/projects
for things I made~/git
for things other people made~/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
~/dev/
, with project/org subdirectoriesAdmittedly, that irks me slightly just because of the shared name with the devices folder in root, but do what works for you.
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
Same. Short and sweet.
~/Projects
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.
~/Dokumentujo/git
~/Git
Same, but by language, e.g.
Development/Python
.What if a project uses multiple languages?
Symlink each individual file, obviously.
~/Code
for coding/dev stuff and~/gitclone
for things that i random clone for some reason. =D~/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.