I do a similar procedure, but I prefix the company or topic with an @ symbol to signify the underlying directory is a group. IE: ~/code/@asf/httpd-dev ~/code

I do a similar procedure, but I prefix the company or topic with an @ symbol to signify the underlying directory is a group. IE: ~/code/@asf/httpd-dev ~/code/@asf/hadoop-trunk ~/code/@linux/linux ~/code/@linux/git The @ symbol will sort the grouped directories first when sorted by alphabetical.