Developing extensions for software that doesn't allow you to separate your files from core files, and keeping that extension under version control and making it easy to deploy is now much, much easier. Development of this script was inspired by Magento which forces you to mix your extension files all throughout the core code directories. With modman, you can specify in a text file where you want your directories and files to be mapped to, and it will maintain symlinks for you so that your code is easy to hack and deploy.