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 ?
I’ve also noticed guides cluttering the downloads and home folders by cloning directly to them. My own work around is to make folder called git or github in my home folder. Then each repository gets its own folder within that.