Working Folder

Contains common functionality used by developers, to assist with dealing with many repositories. It also contains common scripts and aliases so that any dev can work confidently on another's machine.

This repo is intended to be at the root of their work folder. In many cases this will be at ~/work, or more verbosely /c/Users/user-name/work. Note that it could also be at e:\Projects, (/e/Projects in git-bash syntax) or wherever. Specifically: Never hard-code ~/work into any script. Rather, use $WORK_FOLDER.

Internal packages are always at $WORK_FOLDER/Packages.

Currently supported platforms include:

• GitBash
• WSL
• Ubuntu
• Debian
• macOS
• Plan9

Contents

• bin/ Often used shell scripts and other tools
• doc/ Top-level project-agnostic documentation.
• Packages/ Contains all Unity3d Packages used across folders, and may also include other commonly used third-party systems. Note that this is a folder that contains a collection of other git repos that are not sub-modules. By Placing them all here, then ProjectName/ProjectName-Unity/Packages/manifest.json can find packages by default by hard-wiring references.
• repos/ This can be a symbolic link to another folder or even another drive. Use the go command to list and move between repos.
• src/ Source code for tools in $WORK_FOLDER/bin.
• tmp/ A folder that is expected to exist, which can be used per-session for storage of temporary information.

Setup

This documentation will assume a Unix-like environment. That is - macOS, Linux, Windows (WSL) or Windows (GitBash).

git clone https://github.com/Ched-Services/WorkFolder ~/work
sh work/bin/bootstrap

If all else fails, you just the following in your ~/.bashrc:

export WORK_FOLDER=~/local $		# wherever you cloned WorkFoler to
source $WORK_FOLDER/bin/startup

This will ensure that the environment variable WORK_FOLDER is set on shell start.

Common Usage Patterns

See $WORK_FOLDER/docs/default for a set of files that may be used to start from for common items, such as Git Ignore files, etc.

• bin/ Contains often used shell scripts and other tools.
• doc/ Contains top-level project-agnostic documentation. TODO. For example, GitCommands.md.
• Packages/ Contains all Unity3d Packages used across folders, and may also include other commonly used third-party systems. Note that this is a folder that contains a collection of other git repos that are not sub-modules. By Placing them all here, then ProjectName/ProjectName-Unity/Packages/manifest.json can find packages by default by hard-wiring references.
• repos/ Contains all your various work repos. This can be a symbolic link to another folder or even another drive. Use the go command to list and move between repos.
• src/ Source for custom tools in $WORK_FOLDER/bin.