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572 <h1>
573 git-web&#45;&#45;browse(1) Manual Page
574 </h1>
575 <h2>NAME</h2>
576 <div class="sectionbody">
577 <p>git-web--browse -
578 git helper script to launch a web browser
579 </p>
580 </div>
581 </div>
582 <div id="content">
583 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
584 <div class="sectionbody">
585 <div class="verseblock">
586 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git web&#45;&#45;browse</em> [OPTIONS] URL/FILE &#8230;</div>
587 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
588 </div></div>
589 </div>
590 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
591 <div class="sectionbody">
592 <div class="paragraph"><p>This script tries, as much as possible, to display the URLs and FILEs
593 that are passed as arguments, as HTML pages in new tabs on an already
594 opened web browser.</p></div>
595 <div class="paragraph"><p>The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:</p></div>
596 <div class="ulist"><ul>
597 <li>
599 firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
600 </p>
601 </li>
602 <li>
604 iceweasel
605 </p>
606 </li>
607 <li>
609 seamonkey
610 </p>
611 </li>
612 <li>
614 iceape
615 </p>
616 </li>
617 <li>
619 chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
620 </p>
621 </li>
622 <li>
624 google-chrome (also supported as chrome)
625 </p>
626 </li>
627 <li>
629 konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see <em>Note about konqueror</em> below)
630 </p>
631 </li>
632 <li>
634 opera
635 </p>
636 </li>
637 <li>
639 w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
640 </p>
641 </li>
642 <li>
644 elinks
645 </p>
646 </li>
647 <li>
649 links
650 </p>
651 </li>
652 <li>
654 lynx
655 </p>
656 </li>
657 <li>
659 dillo
660 </p>
661 </li>
662 <li>
664 open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
665 </p>
666 </li>
667 <li>
669 start (this is the default under MinGW)
670 </p>
671 </li>
672 </ul></div>
673 <div class="paragraph"><p>Custom commands may also be specified.</p></div>
674 </div>
675 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
676 <div class="sectionbody">
677 <div class="dlist"><dl>
678 <dt class="hdlist1">
679 -b &lt;browser&gt;
680 </dt>
681 <dt class="hdlist1">
682 --browser=&lt;browser&gt;
683 </dt>
684 <dd>
686 Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
687 browsers.
688 </p>
689 </dd>
690 <dt class="hdlist1">
691 -t &lt;browser&gt;
692 </dt>
693 <dt class="hdlist1">
694 --tool=&lt;browser&gt;
695 </dt>
696 <dd>
698 Same as above.
699 </p>
700 </dd>
701 <dt class="hdlist1">
702 -c &lt;conf.var&gt;
703 </dt>
704 <dt class="hdlist1">
705 --config=&lt;conf.var&gt;
706 </dt>
707 <dd>
709 CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it&#8217;s set,
710 then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
711 </p>
712 </dd>
713 </dl></div>
714 </div>
715 <h2 id="_configuration_variables">CONFIGURATION VARIABLES</h2>
716 <div class="sectionbody">
717 <h3 id="_conf_var_from_c_option_and_web_browser">CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
718 <div class="paragraph"><p>The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
719 with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the <em>web.browser</em>
720 configuration variable if the former is not used.</p></div>
721 <h3 id="_browser_lt_tool_gt_path">browser.&lt;tool&gt;.path</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
722 <div class="paragraph"><p>You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
723 setting the configuration variable <em>browser.&lt;tool&gt;.path</em>. For example,
724 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
725 <em>browser.firefox.path</em>. Otherwise, <em>git web&#45;&#45;browse</em> assumes the tool
726 is available in PATH.</p></div>
727 <h3 id="_browser_lt_tool_gt_cmd">browser.&lt;tool&gt;.cmd</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
728 <div class="paragraph"><p>When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
729 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
730 <em>browser.&lt;tool&gt;.cmd</em> configuration variable will be looked up. If this
731 variable exists then <em>git web&#45;&#45;browse</em> will treat the specified tool
732 as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
733 the URLs passed as arguments.</p></div>
734 </div>
735 <h2 id="_note_about_konqueror">Note about konqueror</h2>
736 <div class="sectionbody">
737 <div class="paragraph"><p>When <em>konqueror</em> is specified by a command line option or a
738 configuration variable, we launch <em>kfmclient</em> to try to open the HTML
739 man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.</p></div>
740 <div class="paragraph"><p>For consistency, we also try such a trick if <em>browser.konqueror.path</em> is
741 set to something like <em>A_PATH_TO/konqueror</em>. That means we will try to
742 launch <em>A_PATH_TO/kfmclient</em> instead.</p></div>
743 <div class="paragraph"><p>If you really want to use <em>konqueror</em>, then you can use something like
744 the following:</p></div>
745 <div class="listingblock">
746 <div class="content">
747 <pre><tt> [web]
748 browser = konq
750 [browser "konq"]
751 cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror</tt></pre>
752 </div></div>
753 <h3 id="_note_about_git_config_global">Note about git-config --global</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
754 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
755 the <em>--global</em> flag, for example like this:</p></div>
756 <div class="listingblock">
757 <div class="content">
758 <pre><tt>$ git config --global web.browser firefox</tt></pre>
759 </div></div>
760 <div class="paragraph"><p>as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
761 See <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a> for more information about this.</p></div>
762 </div>
763 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
764 <div class="sectionbody">
765 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
766 </div>
767 </div>
768 <div id="footnotes"><hr /></div>
769 <div id="footer">
770 <div id="footer-text">
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