1 git-web{litdd}browse(1)
2 =======================
6 git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
11 'git web{litdd}browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
16 This script tries, as much as possible, to display the URLs and FILEs
17 that are passed as arguments, as HTML pages in new tabs on an already
20 The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:
22 * firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
26 * chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
27 * google-chrome (also supported as chrome)
28 * konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below)
30 * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
35 * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
36 * start (this is the default under MinGW)
38 Custom commands may also be specified.
44 Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
53 CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it's set,
54 then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
56 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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59 CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
60 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62 The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
63 with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the 'web.browser'
64 configuration variable if the former is not used.
69 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
70 setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
71 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
72 'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web--browse' assumes the tool
78 When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
79 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
80 'browser.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
81 variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool
82 as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
83 the URLs passed as arguments.
88 When 'konqueror' is specified by a command line option or a
89 configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML
90 man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
92 For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'browser.konqueror.path' is
93 set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
94 launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
96 If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
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104 cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
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107 Note about git-config --global
108 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
110 Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
111 the '--global' flag, for example like this:
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114 $ git config --global web.browser firefox
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117 as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
118 See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
122 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite