Linux

${HOME}/repos

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

XDG Documents folder

All over the place...

~/code for everything I want to change/look at the source code.

~/.local/src for stuff I want to install locally from source.

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

~/repos

~/git/AUR|dev|whatever/$(git clone) is where mine usually reside.

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

~/source

/dev/null

~/dev

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}

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.

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/

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

Like some other ppl here, I clone everything in a git folder under my home directory.

~/git

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories

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

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.

~/Projects

~/sites

I have always used it. I liked how it was easy to find in the home directory amongst other folders. Then under that I have a folder for every organization, including myself, and repositories live in those folders.

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

/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.

On Linux I usually just keep them in my home directory because I'm lazy. On Windows though I usually do C:\git\ or D:\git\ if I have a second drive.

~/projects for things I made

~/git for things other people made

/tmp

I tend to follow this structure:

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

/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.

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?

~/github/ and ~/gitea/

~/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.

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

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