GITSO(1)

✨ GITSO(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the gitso manual page 💖 this is the Gitso page from the Git... no wait, from the Gitso manual, section 1. and it's literally about helping people. it's giving tech support angel energy 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

gitso — Gitso is to support others

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

gitso [ --dev | --listen | --connect host | --list list | --low-colors |
--version | --help ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so Gitso is a frontend to reverse VNC connections ✨ and like, what that means is it's meant to be a simple two-step process that connects one person to another person's screen, in the context of giving technical support. one person sees the screen, the other person is getting helped. it's giving community, it's giving care, no cap 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --dev — sets up the paths for running Gitso in the source tree 🌱 (dev mode, basically)
• --listen — starts Gitso and listens for incoming connections 👂
• --connect — starts gitso and automatically connects to host, which is an IP or domain name (aka the address of the support giver 🫶)
• --list — alternative support list, where list is either a URL of a remote file or a path to a local file 📋
• --low-colors — uses 8bit colors (for slow connections 🐌)
• --version — the current Gitso version 🏷️
• --help — displays the help menu 🆘

🌈 HOST FILES 🌈

$HOME/.gitso-hosts /etc/gitso-hosts

⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

• gitso --list http://support.mydomain.com/techs.txt — gets the list of technician IP's or DN's from techs.txt 📥
• gitso --list sanda.mydomain.com,aicha.mydomain.com — adds these three entries to the list of support techs ✍️
• gitso --connect hank.mydomain.com — automatically connects to hank.mydomain.com 🔌

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

x11vnc vncviewer

like, go read those too, bestie 📚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Aaron Gerber and Derek Buranen — icons, honestly 👑

and that's the whole page!! 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶

this lil write-up is from gitso-0.6, dated October 2008 — yeah she's an elder but she still slays 💀 periodt. mwah, go help somebody with their computer bestie 😭🫶