| git-web{litdd}browse(1) |
| ======================= |
| |
| NAME |
| ---- |
| git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser |
| |
| SYNOPSIS |
| -------- |
| [verse] |
| 'git web{litdd}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: |
| |
| * firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE) |
| * iceweasel |
| * seamonkey |
| * iceape |
| * chromium (also supported as chromium-browser) |
| * google-chrome (also supported as chrome) |
| * konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below) |
| * opera |
| * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments) |
| * elinks |
| * links |
| * lynx |
| * dillo |
| * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI) |
| * start (this is the default under MinGW) |
| * cygstart (this is the default under Cygwin) |
| |
| 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. |
| |
| CONFIGURATION VARIABLES |
| ----------------------- |
| |
| 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' |
| configuration 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.firefox.path'. Otherwise, 'git web{litdd}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{litdd}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 arguments. |
| |
| 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: |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| [web] |
| browser = konq |
| |
| [browser "konq"] |
| cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| Note about git-config --global |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using |
| the '--global' flag, for example like this: |
| |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| $ git config --global web.browser firefox |
| ------------------------------------------------ |
| |
| as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. |
| See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this. |
| |
| GIT |
| --- |
| Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |
