1 git-web{litdd}browse(1)
2 =======================
6 git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
10 'git web{litdd}browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
15 This script tries, as much as possible, to display the URLs and FILEs
16 that are passed as arguments, as HTML pages in new tabs on an already
19 The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:
21 * firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
25 * chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
26 * google-chrome (also supported as chrome)
27 * konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below)
29 * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
34 * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
35 * start (this is the default under MinGW)
37 Custom commands may also be specified.
43 Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
52 CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it's set,
53 then its value specifies the browser that should be used.
55 CONFIGURATION VARIABLES
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58 CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
59 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
61 The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
62 with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the 'web.browser'
63 configuration variable if the former is not used.
68 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
69 setting the configuration variable 'browser.<tool>.path'. For example,
70 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
71 'browser.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web--browse' assumes the tool
77 When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
78 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding
79 'browser.<tool>.cmd' configuration variable will be looked up. If this
80 variable exists then 'git web{litdd}browse' will treat the specified tool
81 as a custom command and will use a shell eval to run the command with
82 the URLs passed as arguments.
87 When 'konqueror' is specified by a command line option or a
88 configuration variable, we launch 'kfmclient' to try to open the HTML
89 man page on an already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
91 For consistency, we also try such a trick if 'browser.konqueror.path' is
92 set to something like 'A_PATH_TO/konqueror'. That means we will try to
93 launch 'A_PATH_TO/kfmclient' instead.
95 If you really want to use 'konqueror', then you can use something like
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103 cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
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106 Note about git-config --global
107 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
109 Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
110 the '--global' flag, for example like this:
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113 $ git config --global web.browser firefox
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116 as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
117 See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
121 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite