Linux

~/git

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

~/src/

Simple, effective, doesn't make my home folder any more of a mess than I already left it as.

~/Projects

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.

${HOME}/repos

Same, but by language, e.g. Development/Python.

~/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

~/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, for projects I cloned from the web because I don't know how to code :(

I tend to follow this structure:

Projects
├── personal
│   └── project-name
│       ├── code
│       ├── designs
│       └── wiki
└── work
    └── project-name
        ├── code
        ├── designs
        └── wiki

~/.projects

~/src/${reponame}

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

~/dev

I used to use ~/devbut 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.

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

~/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

~/repo for code I write and ~/src for code I didnt.

I use ~/workspace . I think I got this from when I first started using Java years ago. Eclipse created new projects in this directory by default maybe?

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.

~/src

All over the place...

/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.

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}

Same here!

I use ~/w for "Work" and less typing

Usually ~/devel/

On my work laptop I have separate subdirs for each project and basically try to mirror the Gitlab group/project structure because some fucktards like to split every project into 20 repos.

I have $HOME/src for projects that are executables and $HOME/lib for ones that are libraries/dependancies/etc

~/Git

~/code/git/<org name>/<project>

Mostly a holdover from when I regularly pulled svn/hg/cvs repos and needed reminding what tool to use for which project.

No idea why I still do it.

/mnt/external_ssd_1/git_repos/reponame

i trust my workstations os to still be working in the morning as much as i trust the chances i even published the stupid branch after making it.

Any naming convention is fine as long as it's meaningful to you. But it's a good idea to keep your own repos separate from the random ones you clone from the internet.

/dev/null

XDG Documents folder