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?

  • aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    19·
    26 days ago

    ~/src/

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

    • Grenfur
      1·
      26 days ago

      When I first started with Linux I was determined to not use the desktop for files since the mess that was my desktop on windows always bothered me. A year later my home folder is a mess. I guess nothing really changed here.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      26 days 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·
        25 days 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·
    26 days 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.

  • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.comEnglish
    9·
    26 days 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
  • Foster Hangdaan@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com
    8·
    26 days ago

    I tend to follow this structure:

    Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      1·
      26 days 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·
        26 days 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·
          25 days 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·
            25 days 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.

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
    8·
    26 days 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.

  • Luna@lemdro.idEnglish
    7·
    26 days ago

    ~/projects for things I made

    ~/git for things other people made

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
    6·
    25 days ago

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