Mostly a joke project, this is a GPT-powered alternative to the man command. Summon the full power of Sam Altman to explain the syntax for obscure commands.
Written in Rust because aren't all the trendy command line tools? Really, I just wanted an excuse to play around with it.
I recommend installing it with brew. Or, you can simply appreciate the joke on this page. There is value in it actually working, though.
brew tap glitched\tap
brew install glitched\tap\alt-man
Otherwise, feel free to clone and run cargo install.
Add an OpenAI API key in your environment as OPENAI_API_KEY
❯ alt-man -h
Usage: [-i] [-g] [-m ARG] [-a ARG] <COMMAND> [<QUERY>]...
Available positional items:
<COMMAND> Command in question
<QUERY> Your question for alt-man!
Available options:
-i, --include-man Include the man page contents with the query
-g, --gpt-4 Use GPT-4 for a better, but more expensive response
-m, --model <ARG> Specify a model by string. Takes precedence over -g
-a, --answer-max-tokens <ARG> Max tokens used in the response. Default: 512
-h, --help Prints help information
Example Request:
❯ alt-man git point a branch at a specific hash without checking it out
To point a branch at a specific hash without checking it out, you can use
the `git branch` command with the `-f` or `--force` option.
For example, if you want to point the branch `my-branch` at the commit hash
`abc123`, you can run the following command:
```
git branch -f my-branch abc123
```
Note that this will move the branch pointer to the specified commit hash
and should be used with caution, as it can potentially overwrite changes.