Personal stuff goes in ~/Projects
Work stuff goes in ~/Work/Code
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Personal stuff goes in ~/Projects
Work stuff goes in ~/Work/Code
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
~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>
~/git
~/dev/
, with project/org subdirectories
Admittedly, 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
Fascinating idea!
This is pure insanity. Chaos.
Same. Short and sweet.
~/src/
Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.
~/Projects
${HOME}/repos
~/git/vendor/<gitUser>/<repo>
and
~/git/<myName>/<forge>/<user>/<repo>
Examples:
~/git/vendor/EnigmaCurry/d.rymcg.tech
~/git/mike/forgejo/mikew/myproject
~/git/mike/github/johndoe/otherProject
Same, but by language, e.g. Development/Python
.
What if a project uses multiple languages?
Thinking of the projects I work on, I don't understand the value in categorizing by language, rather than theme (~/Development/Web/
, ~/Development/Games/
) or just the project folders right there.
Yeah, everyone has to find their own way of organising, I guess. For me, there are too many different little projects that it would get messy throwing them all in one folder. And they’re so varied that I couldn’t think of one single “theme” or topic for most of them. Nothing I would remember a week later anyways.
Like others, I have a folder in my home directory called "Code." Most operating systems encourage you to organize digital files by category (documents, photos, music, videos). Anything that doesn't fit into those categories gets its own new directory. This is especially important for me, as all my folders except Code are synced to NextCloud.
~/workspace/git
That way I can also keep other stuff in the same "workspace" directory and keep everything else clean
I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.
I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.
~/git, for projects I cloned from the web because I don't know how to code :(
~/src/${reponame}
I tend to follow this structure:
Projects
├── personal
│ └── project-name
│ ├── code
│ ├── designs
│ └── wiki
└── work
└── project-name
├── code
├── designs
└── wiki
~/.projects
Similar, but I’m not ashamed of having my projects on display, so it’s just ~/projects
for me.
~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME
~/projects
for things I made
~/git
for things other people made
~/dev
I used to use ~/dev
but for years now I use ~/Workspace
becaue Eclipse made me do it
Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src
, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.
~/code
for everything I want to change/look at the source code.
~/.local/src
for stuff I want to install locally from source.
~/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++ libraryFor 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.
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?
I do this too, maybe this explains why
~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.
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}
/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.
All over the place...
~/src
/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.
~/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.
C:\repos
or ~/repos
~/Git