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Best practices for organizing personal git repositories in /home folder? (self.linux4noobs)
submitted 2 months ago by cerement to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world
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There’s a lot of detailed information if you’re dealing with running a git server (/srv/git) or dealing with development (follow your company’s policies), reams of information about how to organize files inside a repository, and some apps will handle their own repository location (chezmoi), but not much about just keeping your personal git repositories organized without cluttering up your home folder:

  • a lot of Youtube videos are just grabbing a couple files so end up cloning into ~/Downloads and cleaning up later
  • GitHub and GitLab tutorials just mention clone into the folder of your choice
  • Codeberg’s “Your First Repository” has you cloning into ~/repositories
  • so, what have you found to be the cleanest/simplest/most comfortable?
    • “top-level” folder like ~/repositories or ~/repos ?
    • move down a level like ~/Documents/repos ?
      • (make use of an unused XDG folder like ~/Public ? (doesn’t seem likely))
    • something else that everyone adopted ages ago ?
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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

A git workspace is a folder with several git repositories inside of it that are related. You can have multiple workspaces. I have one for my personal code ~/code and one for my work code ~/w

There are tools to help you manage git workspaces, like https://github.com/orf/git-workspace or https://github.com/StreakyCobra/gws