The workspaces folder contains folders for your active work.
There is a workspace folder main dedicated for your primary work.
You may do all your work inside the main workspace.
Also, you are free to create any number of additional workspace folders named as you like (e.g. test, release, testing, my-sub-project, etc.).
Using multiple workspaces allows to run multiple IDE runtime instances with separate configurations within the same IDEasy project.
Within the workspace folder (e.g. workspaces/main) you are again free to create sub-folders for (sub-)projects according to your needs.
We assume that in most cases you clone git repositories here.
The following structure shows an example layout:
/ workspaces/ ├──/ main/ │ ├──/ .metadata/ │ ├──/ IDEasy/ │ ├──/ ide-settings/ │ └──/ test-project/ └──/ stable/ ├──/ .metadata/ └──/ IDEasy/
In the main workspace you may find the cloned forks for regular work as a base to create pull-requests while in the stable workspace there is a clone of the official repository.
Or you have checked out the main branch of your project-repository in main while in stable there is the latest production release branch.
However, this is just an example.
Some people like to create separate workspaces for development and maintenance branches with git.
Other people just switch between those via git checkout.
IDEasy offers you great flexibility and you are free to do what makes sense for you.