How I Organize My GitHub Repositories
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How I Organize My GitHub Repositories
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#2Cool to see.
I do something similar. My main account is @tmm (https://github.com/tmm) and my deprecated projects are in an org @tmm-archive (https://github.com/tmm). Also put my data science university work in an org @tmm-ms (https://github.com/tmm-ms).
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#3TLDR: Use organisations as folders for repositories
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#4I would love to see folders available beneath users and organizations. When a company puts repositories underneath github.com/companyname they all go in one giant pile; subfolders would allow organizing components of projects into folders.
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#5Something I came across for this : https://app.astralapp.com/
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#6I would be kind of worried that a project under an organization may not be seen as "my project" when someone like a recruiter was looking at my profile.
I am really excited by what https://ghuser.io is working on, and really hope GitHub takes more inspiration from them on how to arrange a profile, as it orders projects (whether mine, someone else's, or an organization's) by a score calculated based on the popularity of a project and how much you've contributed to it personally.
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#7I would be kind of worried that a project under an organization may not be seen as "my project" when someone like a recruiter was looking at my profile. I am really excited by what https://ghuser.io is working on, and really hope GitHub takes more inspiration from them on how to arrange a profile, as it orders projects (whether mine, someone else's, or an organization's) by a score calculated based on the popularity…
> I only keep the most important projects on my profile page. Projects which I want others users to find and read.
It seems like the whole point of the OP's organization scheme is so that only repositories which aren't in an organization are readily visible.
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#8This is nice that op gets value. But github has a search feature. Google searches pretty well. I rarely browse user accounts and if someone looked at my account and cared because I had forked stuff, then I consider it a bonus that they exclude me from their job search.
There ar different philosphies to githubbing, the mistake is only when you project your own onto perceiving another’s.
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#9> Fourth, another fork, but this time nothing has been updated for over a year. I guess the user pressed fork by mistake?
A guess: they submitted a PR, and upstream never got around to merging it. My understanding is that the PR points to the fork, so if I delete my fork, the PR dies (or loses its content). Is that true?
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#10> "Group repositories together using Organizations"
I've done this in the past. But then decided GitLab's ability to nest groups (i.e., have a hierarchy) made more sense. When I made the switch, GL had free private repos as well.
Sure GH is bigger. But GL was / is a better tool for my needs.