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)
37 * cygstart (this is the default under Cygwin)
40 Custom commands may also be specified.
46 Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
55 CONF.VAR is looked up in the Git config files. If it's set,
56 then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
58 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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61 CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
62 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
64 The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
65 with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the 'web.browser'
66 configuration variable if the former is not used.
71 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
72 setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
73 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
74 'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web{litdd}browse' assumes the tool
80 When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
81 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
82 'browser.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
83 variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool
84 as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
85 the URLs passed as arguments.
90 When 'konqueror' is specified by a command line option or a
91 configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML
92 man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
94 For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'browser.konqueror.path' is
95 set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
96 launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
98 If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
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106 cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
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109 Note about git-config --global
110 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
112 Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
113 the '--global' flag, for example like this:
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116 $ git config --global web.browser firefox
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119 as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
120 See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
124 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite