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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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[–] jokro@feddit.org 42 points 1 month ago
[–] mlfh@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 24 points 1 month 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 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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
[–] gianni@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Same. Short and sweet.

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

${HOME}/repos

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

[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month 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 month 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.

[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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
[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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

~/src/${reponame}

[–] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 7 points 1 month 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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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

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

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] arality@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hawdini@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] amzd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[–] muhq@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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
[–] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month 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 month ago

I do this too, maybe this explains why

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 month 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.

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

All over the place...

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Usually ~/devel/

On my work laptop I have separate subdirs for each project and basically try to mirror the Gitlab group/project structure because some fucktards like to split every project into 20 repos.

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

[–] abrahambelch@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago
[–] boredsquirrel 2 points 1 month ago
[–] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month 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.

[–] Eryn6844@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago
[–] donio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

XDG Documents folder

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