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?

      • mlfh@lemmy.ml
        291·
        2 months ago

        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 various local user configs
med - pictures, music, videos
mnt - usb/sd mountpoints
nfs - nfs mountpoints
smb - smb mountpoints
src - external source code
tmp - desktop
  • aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    181·
    2 months ago

    ~/src/ Simple, effective, doesn’t make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.

  • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.comEnglish
    10·
    2 months 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
    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      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·
        2 months 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.

  • Irdial@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    2 months 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·
    2 months 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.

  • Foster Hangdaan@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com
    81·
    2 months ago

    I tend to follow this structure:

    Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 months ago

      Is “code”, “designs” and “wiki” here just some example files in the repo or are those sub-folders, and you only have the repo underneath code?

      • Foster Hangdaan@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com
        2·
        2 months ago

        They are the project’s subfolders (outside of the Git repo):

        • code contains the source code; version-controlled with Git.
        • wiki contains documentation and also version-controlled.
        • designs contains GIMP, Inkscape or Krita save files.

        This structure works for me since software projects involve more things than just the code, and you can add more subfolders according to your liking such as notes, pkgbuild (for Arch Linux), or releases.

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 months ago

          Ah, interesting. In my current setup, I dump the auxilliary files into a folder above the repo, but it can certainly make it a bit messy to find the repo in there then…

          • Foster Hangdaan@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com
            2·
            2 months ago

            I maintain a rule that all files above the repo must be inside a folder, with one exception: a README file. Including the code folder, this typically results in no more than 5 folders; the project folder itself is kept organized and uncluttered.

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    7·
    2 months ago

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

  • Luna@lemdro.idEnglish
    71·
    2 months ago

    ~/projects for things I made

    ~/git for things other people made