NAME
git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser
SYNOPSIS
git web--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)
• xdg-open
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--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--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 git-config(1) for more information about this.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite