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?
~/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
I tend to follow this structure:
Projects ├── personal │ └── project-name │ ├── code │ ├── designs │ └── wiki └── work └── project-name ├── code ├── designs └── wiki
~/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.Personal stuff goes in
~/Projects
Work stuff goes in
~/Work/Code