~/Prototypes on pretty much all machines I own, from desktop, laptop, server, tablets, ebook readers, RPis, XR headset, video projector, etc.
~/Sources for stuff I'm only building from sources and no immediate intention to contribute to
~/Projects for stuff I'm involved in, with a following structure:
Projects
- Personal
- - Art
- - Music
- - Code
- - - Ideas
- - - In progress
- - - Deployed
- - - Scripts
- - - Abandoned
- [Company name]
- - [Project name]
- Interviews
- - [Company name]
The last part grouping project by companies has worked great for me, especially with freelance and outsource work. Sorting personal projects into types and stages feels like a mistake, as every time I have to navigate it, I can't help but think of limitations of hierarchical file systems, as some of them are multiple types simultaneously, and also moving projects between stages feels dumb.
~/git, for projects I cloned from the web because I don't know how to code :(
In ~/src Mostly because I'm too lazy to type "source".
Putting one directly under the home directory feels like a psychopathic move, so I stay by XDG and put them under a subdirectory of xdg-documents
~/src
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 ~~git~~ get 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
${HOME}/repos
~/.projects
Similar, but I’m not ashamed of having my projects on display, so it’s just ~/projects
for me.
~/workspace/git
That way I can also keep other stuff in the same "workspace" directory and keep everything else clean
I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in the workspace folder where projects or 1-offs are stored and when I want to bring them to git, I copy them over, play around in the project folders again, then copy changes over when I am ready to commit.
I could better use branching and checking out in git, but large mechanical assemblies work badly on git.
~/git
~/src/${reponame}
~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME
~/dev/
, with project/org subdirectories
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 - desktop
This is pure insanity. Chaos.
~/src/
Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.
~/code
for everything I want to change/look at the source code.
~/.local/src
for stuff I want to install locally from source.
~/Projects
I used to use ~/dev
but for years now I use ~/Workspace
becaue Eclipse made me do it
~/dev
All over the place...
~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.
Same, but by language, e.g. Development/Python
.
What if a project uses multiple languages?
Symlink each individual file, obviously.
Me waiting for tagging filesystems to become the standard
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.
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.
~/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
XDG Documents folder
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}
C:\repos
or ~/repos
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.
/dev/null
Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src
, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.
~/projects
for things I made
~/git
for things other people made
I tend to follow this structure:
Projects
├── personal
│ └── project-name
│ ├── code
│ ├── designs
│ └── wiki
└── work
└── project-name
├── code
├── designs
└── wiki
~/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
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