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by TacticalCoder 1181 days ago
> The second example is a nice start, but I'd really like to see invisible files/folders in ~/ done away with altogether.

A great many amazing tools shall, by default, skip searching in hidden files (and gain a great speedup thanks to doing that). You'd have to modify all these tools so that they'd skip Library/ by default.

Also, related to that, what would you do with .git/? Move prjs/fizzbuz/.git to Library/fizzbuzz/git while keeping prjs/fizzbuzz?

This is, hopefully, never going to happen.

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Things like .git are fine I think, because they’re localized one-offs and have more of a reason to be hidden. It’s the home folder’s function of a junk drawer that makes invisible files/folders a problem there.
I already do this. .git/ is a visible folder name-of-project/ in another location:

  $(infernalpath loc)/version-control/git/path-to-project/name-of-project
  $(infernalpath loc)/version-control/fossil/path-to-project/name-of-project