~/workspace/git

That way I can also keep other stuff there.

I have a Code, simulations, ECAD, and FreeCAD folder in there 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.

~/code/$LANGUAGE/$REPONAME

XDG Documents folder

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.

~/repos

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}

~/gits

Documentation is usually a doc folder inside the repo or just a README.md for small projects.

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.

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

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.

/tmp

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

~/dev/, with project/org subdirectories