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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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[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

Personal stuff goes in ~/Projects

Work stuff goes in ~/Work/Code

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] sntx@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>

[–] jokro@feddit.org 42 points 1 week ago
[–] mlfh@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 24 points 1 week 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.

[–] mlfh@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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
[–] sntx@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

Fascinating idea!

[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

Same. Short and sweet.

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[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week ago
[–] 0x0@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago

${HOME}/repos

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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
[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week 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.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

~/src/${reponame}

[–] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 7 points 1 week 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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[–] arality@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hawdini@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago

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

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago
[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

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

[–] muhq@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week 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 1 week 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?

[–] Disregard3145@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[–] rutrum@lm.paradisus.day 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[–] r3dw4re@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week 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}

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

All over the place...

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago
[–] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] samwwwblack@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 2 points 1 week ago

C:\repos or ~/repos

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago
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