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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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[–] simonced@lemmy.one 1 points 28 minutes ago

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

[–] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour 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.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] aleats@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

~/src/

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

[–] vinnymac@lemmy.world 1 points 3 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.

[–] k4j8@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

~/github/ and ~/gitea/

[–] jokro@feddit.org 21 points 7 hours ago
[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] nzeayn@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours 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.

[–] drbluefall@toast.ooo 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 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
[–] mlfh@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 11 points 7 hours 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 7 points 6 hours ago (1 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 various 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 5 points 1 hour ago

This is pure insanity. Chaos.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 hours ago

Same. Short and sweet.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 9 points 7 hours ago
[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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
[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 hours 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 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours 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.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What if a project uses multiple languages?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Symlink each individual file, obviously.

[–] 2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

[–] foster@lemmy.fosterhangdaan.com 5 points 8 hours ago

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki
[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 7 hours 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.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 hours ago
[–] samwwwblack@lemm.ee 2 points 8 hours 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.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 8 hours 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.

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

~/Dokumentujo/git

[–] abrahambelch@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] picandocodigo@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

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?

[–] EuCaue@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

~/Code for coding/dev stuff and ~/gitclone for things that i random clone for some reason. =D

[–] RoyaltyInTraining@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Same! I also have a separate directory for college assignments and stuff. Gonna set up separate gitconfigs for both soon, so there is a smaller chance of mixing up my credentials

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 7 hours ago

Usually, I throw college assignments in a folder under documents.

[–] Kualk@lemm.ee 0 points 8 hours ago

~/projs

I like ~/w or ~/p options