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?
Personal stuff goes in
~/Projects
Work stuff goes in
~/Work/Code
Personal?
~
My homedir is a HUGE MESS.
Work?
~/src/<site>/<project>/<repo>
i.e. ~/src/github/mirantis/docker (not real I don’t imagine, just an example)
~/src/bitbucket/INTERNALPROJECTCODE/coolrepo
~/git, for projects I cloned from the web because I don’t know how to code :(
${HOME}/repos
~/workspace/git
That way I can also keep other stuff in the same “workspace” directory and keep everything else clean
I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.
I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.
~/.projects
Similar, but I’m not ashamed of having my projects on display, so it’s just
~/projects
for me.
~/src/${reponame}
~/Documents/projects/<YYYY>-<MM>-<DD>_<name>
~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME
~/src
I used to use
~/dev
but for years now I use~/Workspace
becaue Eclipse made me do it~/code
for everything I want to change/look at the source code.~/.local/src
for stuff I want to install locally from source.~/dev
~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.
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/
andMusic/
, 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 torepo/
, and if I have multiple relevant repos for the Project, then make itrepo-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.