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> On Mar 6, 2015, at 10:14, Erik Bray <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Greg Wilson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2015-03-05 11:52 AM, Olav Vahtras wrote:
>>> 
>>> To add some humor:  the random git man page generator
>>> http://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
>>> What git may look like to novices :-)
>> I am currently seeking funding for a study to determine whether Git users at
>> _any_ level are able to distinguish these randomly-generated manual pages
>> from the real thing.  I am confident that the most common response of
>> subjects will be, "Ohgod ohgod make it stop..."
> 
> I can give you some anecdata right now, that as a somewhat experienced
> git user at this point, I can scarcely determine those from the real
> thing.  The silly option switches I think give it a way a bit (I got
> "--terrorize-subtree" which doesn't make sense, because terrorizing is
> what subtrees do to *users*).  But my eyes glaze over the main text
> about the same rate it does for the actual man pages.
> 
> Erik

There's a `git bash` joke in here somewhere. I am confident of it.

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Thanks everyone for indulging me.

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