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git-web{litdd}browse(1)
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NAME
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git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git web{litdd}browse' [<options>] (<URL>|<file>)...
DESCRIPTION
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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
Documentation: quote double-dash for AsciiDoc AsciiDoc versions since 5.0.6 treat a double-dash surrounded by spaces (outside of verbatim environments) as a request to insert an em dash. Such versions also treat the three-character sequence "\--", when not followed by another dash, as a request to insert two literal minus signs. Thus from time to time there have been patches to add backslashes to AsciiDoc markup to escape double-dashes that are meant to be represent '--' characters used literally on the command line; see v1.4.0-rc1~174, Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly, 2006-05-05, for example. AsciiDoc 6.0.3 (2005-04-20) made life harder by also treating double-dashes without surrounding whitespace as markup for an em dash, though only when formatting for backends other than the manpages (e.g., HTML). Many pages needed to be changed to use a backslash before the "--" in names of command-line flags like "--add" (see v0.99.6~37, Update tutorial, 2005-08-30). AsciiDoc 8.3.0 (2008-11-29) refined the em-dash rule to avoid that requirement. Double-dashes without surrounding spaces are not rendered as em dashes any more unless bordered on both sides by alphanumeric characters. The unescaped markup for option names (e.g., "--add") works fine, and many instances of this style have leaked into Documentation/; git's HTML documentation contains many spurious em dashes when formatted by an older toolchain. (This patch will not change that.) The upshot: "--" as an isolated word and in phrases like "git web--browse" must be escaped if it is not to be rendered as an em dash by current asciidoc. Use "\--" to avoid such misformatting in sentences in which "--" represents a literal double-minus command line argument that separates options and revs from pathspecs, and use "{litdd}" in cases where the double-dash is embedded in the command name. The latter is just for consistency with v1.7.3-rc0~13^2 (Work around em-dash handling in newer AsciiDoc, 2010-08-23). List of lines to fix found by grepping manpages for "(em". Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Improved-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-06-29 05:35:10 +00:00
'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
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Note about git-config --global
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
the `--global` flag, for example like this:
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$ git config --global web.browser firefox
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as they are probably more user specific than repository specific.
See linkgit:git-config[1] for more information about this.
GIT
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite