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Best practices for organizing personal git repositories in /home folder? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by cerement@slrpnk.net to c/linux4noobs@lemmy.world

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There’s a lot of detailed information if you’re dealing with running a git server (/srv/git) or dealing with development (follow your company’s policies), reams of information about how to organize files inside a repository, and some apps will handle their own repository location (chezmoi), but not much about just keeping your personal git repositories organized without cluttering up your home folder:

a lot of Youtube videos are just grabbing a couple files so end up cloning into ~/Downloads and cleaning up later
GitHub and GitLab tutorials just mention clone into the folder of your choice
Codeberg’s “Your First Repository” has you cloning into ~/repositories
so, what have you found to be the cleanest/simplest/most comfortable?
- “top-level” folder like ~/repositories or ~/repos ?
- move down a level like ~/Documents/repos ?
  - (make use of an unused XDG folder like ~/Public ? (doesn’t seem likely))
- something else that everyone adopted ages ago ?

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[–] AceSLS@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have them in

~/Documents/Source for things I just want to look through but not compile myself
~/Documents/Code/(Language)/(Project) for things I code by myself
~/Programs/(Project) for things I actually modify and plan to compile and use myself

If you're wondering why Documents? I guess that just sticked from windows and made kind of sense, not that the nesting matters anyway with zoxide