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?
~/git/AUR|dev|whatever/$(git clone)
is where mine usually reside.~/repos
I used to use
~/dev
but for years now I use~/Workspace
becaue Eclipse made me do itAll over the place…
~/source
/dev/null
~/code
for everything I want to change/look at the source code.~/.local/src
for stuff I want to install locally from source.~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.
~/gits
Documentation is usually a
doc
folder inside the repo or just aREADME.md
for small projects.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}
~/dev
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/
andMusic/
, 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 torepo/
, and if I have multiple relevant repos for the Project, then make itrepo-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.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.
Like some other ppl here, I clone everything in a git folder under my home directory.
~/src/ Simple, effective, doesn’t make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.