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Why we picked it You cannot fully remove the risk of one person holding all the knowledge, but you can hedge it, and the cheapest hedge is documentation your developer writes as they go. This is a ready-made README template with the sections that actually matter for handover: how to install, how to run it locally, configuration, and where things live. Drop it into your repo on day one and make keeping it current part of the job, so a second developer (or a replacement) can get oriented without a month of reverse engineering.
readme-best-practices: a starter template for project READMEs
From GitHub by jehna One template file plus a short guide
- A good README is the practical insurance against depending on one person's memory, so start it on day one, not at handover.
- The template covers the handover essentials: install, develop or run locally, configuration, and key links.
- It is a boilerplate you copy and fill in, which lowers the excuse of I will document it later to almost zero.