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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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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

My setup looks like this:

~/Projects/project_name/repo_name/

I found, I'll usually have additional files which I don't want to check into the repo, so I can place them underneath project_name/ instead.
In particular, I'll also often have multiple repos associated with a given project.

Downside: I don't really have a good place for repos, which I clone just to compile the given software for personal usage. At this point, I have a ~/Projects/foreign/ folder for them. Although, I guess, it might make sense to have a folder in general for user-installed applications, where I could also have those repos.