Git Man Page Generator

Both ProcJam and NaNoGenMo are in full swing, so this is the perfect time to highlight useful programming resources!

Instead, I’m going to talk about git-man-page-generator. Git is an open-source version control system for developing software. Version control is important when you’re working on a large programming project, because it lets you keep track of what changes have been made. There’s nothing worse than having a working system, making a small change that breaks it, and being unable to fix it to the way it used to be. With version control, you can just revert to your earlier version. It’s even more important when you’re working in a team, because good version control can prevent you from overwriting your teammate’s work.

The catch is that understanding git can be tricky. While the basics are relatively simple and there are tools to help, the arcane intricacies of how it operates can baffle most people.

Created by Lokaltog, git man page generator is absolutely no help for that problem. Instead of displaying a useful page from the manual, it creates a totally new one, which probably isn’t even real. 

Oh, and for an actually useful resource for those of you doing your own procedural generation projects right now, the git-man-page-generator is based on Baba, which is a designer for text generators. Try it out!

Generate your own git man pages: http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/