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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XDG Documents folder
I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO GIT.
My best recommendation is a good git GUI. I really like Gitkraken (proprietary & freemium unfortunately, but a pretty generous free plan). I’m now more advanced than many of my coworkers because it helped me form an intuitive understanding of git.
Don’t worry, the basics are really easy to
gitget down, you can read any beginner guide to start trying it out, for example this one on baeldung seems pretty alright by a quick skim, or, if you prefer a more playful approach, definitely check out ohmygit.
If you want to try a git hoster as well, make a GitHub profile if you want to go where most everyone is, so you can also easily contribute to others’ projects, otherwise, if you care about staying on a free platform, make an account on Codeberg, fewer people, but all great like-minded free software supporters…or make one on both, ngl
Thanks. I do have a codeberg, a Gitlab and a github account (all I have here are my blacklist and white lists). If my kids allow me, I’ll start swimming on this waters this weekend. I’ve only seen how you guys basically hold repose of pretty much anything and automate workflows and configurations so easily, it’s amazing.
Good luck! It can get complicated so I know how you feel looking at weird configurations that do magic
/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.
Same, but by language, e.g.
Development/Python.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.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.
What if a project uses multiple languages?
Symlink each individual file, obviously.
Me waiting for tagging filesystems to become the standard
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
~/Prototypes on pretty much all machines I own, from desktop, laptop, server, tablets, ebook readers, RPis, XR headset, video projector, etc.
~/Codefor coding/dev stuff and~/gitclonefor things that i random clone for some reason. =D/dev/null
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.I used to use
~/devbut for years now I use~/Workspacebecaue Eclipse made me do it~/source
~/code/git/<org name>/<project>Mostly a holdover from when I regularly pulled
svn/hg/cvsrepos and needed reminding what tool to use for which project.No idea why I still do it.
In ~/src Mostly because I’m too lazy to type “source”.
~/dev/, with project/org subdirectoriesSame. Short and sweet.
Lol same
Admittedly, that irks me slightly just because of the shared name with the devices folder in root, but do what works for you.
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 - desktopThis is pure insanity. Chaos.
Fascinating idea!
~/src
