GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1)GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1)NAMEgit-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
SYNOPSIS
git web--browse [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
DESCRIPTION
This script tries, as much as possible, to display the URLs and FILEs
that are passed as arguments, as HTML pages in new tabs on an already
opened web browser.
The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:
o firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
o iceweasel
o konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see Note about konqueror
below)
o w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
o links
o lynx
o dillo
o open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
o start (this is the default under MinGW)
Custom commands may also be specified.
OPTIONS-b <browser>, --browser=<browser>
Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
browsers.
-t <browser>, --tool=<browser>
Same as above.
-c <conf.var>, --config=<conf.var>
CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it’s
set, then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
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CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the web.browser con-
figuration variable if the former is not used.
browser.<tool>.path
You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
setting the configuration variable browser.<tool>.path. For example,
you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting browser.fire-
fox.path. Otherwise, git web--browse assumes the tool is available in
PATH.
browser.<tool>.cmd
When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
not among the supported ones, then the corresponding browser.<tool>.cmd
configuration variable will be looked up. If this variable exists then
git web--browse will treat the specified tool as a custom command and
will use a shell eval to run the command with the URLs passed as argu-
ments.
NOTE ABOUT KONQUEROR
When konqueror is specified by a command line option or a configuration
variable, we launch kfmclient to try to open the HTML man page on an
already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
For consistency, we also try such a trick if browser.konqueror.path is
set to something like A_PATH_TO/konqueror. That means we will try to
launch A_PATH_TO/kfmclient instead.
If you really want to use konqueror, then you can use something like
the following:
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[web]
browser = konq
[browser "konq"]
cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
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Note about git-config --global
Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
the --global flag, for example like this:
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$ git config --global web.browser firefox
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as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. See
git-config(1) for more information about this.
AUTHOR
Written by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org:
mailto:chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org:
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>, based on git mergetool by Theodore Y.
Ts’o.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org:
mailto:chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org:
mailto:git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
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