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?

  • poinck@lemm.ee
    1·
    58 minutes ago

    ~/gits

    Documentation is usually a doc folder inside the repo or just a README.md for small projects.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 hours 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.

  • r3dw4re [null/void]@hexbear.net
    1·
    2 hours ago

    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}

  • donio@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 hours 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.

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    4 hours ago

    Like some other ppl here, I clone everything in a git folder under my home directory.

  • aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    121·
    9 hours ago

    ~/src/

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

      • mlfh@lemmy.ml
        161·
        9 hours ago

        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
  • CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    4 hours ago

    On Linux I usually just keep them in my home directory because I’m lazy. On Windows though I usually do C:\git\ or D:\git\ if I have a second drive.

  • vinnymac@lemmy.world
    21·
    6 hours ago

    ~/sites

    I have always used it. I liked how it was easy to find in the home directory amongst other folders. Then under that I have a folder for every organization, including myself, and repositories live in those folders.

  • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
    41·
    8 hours 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