gitstery-generator 1.0.1

A Git murder mystery

The Git Murder Mystery Generator

This project generates a "gitstery" git repository.

NOTICE: This is not the Git Murder Mystery repository. For that, please visit https://github.com/nivbend/gitstery.

Install

pip install gitstery-generator

Or clone this repository and then pip install ./python setup.py install.

Usage

To generate a new repository at /tmp/gitstery:

gitstery generate /tmp/gitstery

To verify a repository:

gitstery verify /tmp/gitstery
gitstery verify https://github.com/nivbend/gitstery.git
gitstery verify [e-mail]:nivbend/gitstery.git

If you have your own fork of the gitstery repository you'd like to update:

gitstery push /tmp/gitstery <your repository URL>

Or:

gitstery generate --push /tmp/gitstery

The following environment variables replace some commonly used values:

Environment Variable	Usage
GITSTERY_TEMP_DIR	The directory in which to generate the new repository
GITSTERY_SEED	The random seed to use (useful for reproducible "builds")
GITSTERY_TARGET_REPO	URL of the remote repository

Data

• English:
  • List of given names: Social Security's top 1000 names for 2018.
  • List of surnames: 2000 US Census

Acknowledgments

The "murder mystery" repository this project generates was inspired by similar projects:

• SQL Murder Mystery.
• The Command Line Murders.