git-web--browse
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Name
git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
Synopsis
git web--browse [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
Description
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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:
o firefox (this is the default under X Window when not
using KDE)
o iceweasel
o seamonkey
o iceape
o chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
o google-chrome (also supported as chrome)
o konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see Note about
konqueror below)
o opera
o w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
o elinks
o links
o lynx
o dillo
o open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
o start (this is the default under MinGW)
Custom commands may also be specified.
OPTIONS
-b <browser>, --browser=<browser>
Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of
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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"]
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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
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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