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?

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months 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.

      • mbirth@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      3·
      2 months ago

      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

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
        2·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
          2·
          2 months ago

          Good luck! It can get complicated so I know how you feel looking at weird configurations that do magic

  • Hyacin (He/Him)@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    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

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
    5·
    2 months ago

    I used to use ~/devbut for years now I use ~/Workspace becaue Eclipse made me do it

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    4·
    2 months ago

    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.

  • r00ty@kbin.life
    3·
    2 months 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.

  • EuCaue@lemmy.mlBEnglish
    21·
    2 months ago

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