Personally, to keep my documents like Inkscape files or LibreOffice documents separate from my code, I add a directory under my home directory called Development. There, I can do git clones to my heart’s content

What do you all do?

    • Tekhne@sh.itjust.works
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      4 days ago

      My best recommendation is a good git GUI. I really like Gitkraken (proprietary & freemium unfortunately, but a pretty generous free plan). I’m now more advanced than many of my coworkers because it helped me form an intuitive understanding of git.

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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      4 days ago

      Don’t worry, the basics are really easy to git get down, you can read any beginner guide to start trying it out, for example this one on baeldung seems pretty alright by a quick skim, or, if you prefer a more playful approach, definitely check out ohmygit.
      If you want to try a git hoster as well, make a GitHub profile if you want to go where most everyone is, so you can also easily contribute to others’ projects, otherwise, if you care about staying on a free platform, make an account on Codeberg, fewer people, but all great like-minded free software supporters

      …or make one on both, ngl

      • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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        4 days ago

        Thanks. I do have a codeberg, a Gitlab and a github account (all I have here are my blacklist and white lists). If my kids allow me, I’ll start swimming on this waters this weekend. I’ve only seen how you guys basically hold repose of pretty much anything and automate workflows and configurations so easily, it’s amazing.

        • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
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          4 days ago

          Good luck! It can get complicated so I know how you feel looking at weird configurations that do magic

  • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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    5 days ago

    ~/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.

  • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

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

  • muhq@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 days ago

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

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