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6 git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
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9 git web--browse [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ...
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12 This script tries, as much as possible, to display the URLs and FILEs
13 that are passed as arguments, as HTML pages in new tabs on an already
14 opened web browser.
15 The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:
17 · firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
19 · iceweasel
21 · seamonkey
23 · iceape
25 · chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
27 · google-chrome (also supported as chrome)
29 · konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see Note about konqueror
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32 · opera
34 · w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
36 · elinks
38 · links
40 · lynx
42 · dillo
44 · open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
46 · start (this is the default under MinGW)
48 Custom commands may also be specified.
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52 -b <browser>, --browser=<browser>
53 Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
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55 -t <browser>, --tool=<browser>
57 Same as above.
58 -c <conf.var>, --config=<conf.var>
60 CONF.VAR is looked up in the git config files. If it’s set, then
61 its value specifies the browser that should be used.
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64 CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
65 The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
66 with the -c (or --config) command line option, or the web.browser
67 configuration variable if the former is not used.
68 browser.<tool>.path
70 You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
71 setting the configuration variable browser.<tool>.path. For example,
72 you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
73 browser.firefox.path. Otherwise, git web—browse assumes the tool is
74 available in PATH.
75 browser.<tool>.cmd
77 When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
78 not among the supported ones, then the corresponding browser.<tool>.cmd
79 configuration variable will be looked up. If this variable exists then
80 git web--browse will treat the specified tool as a custom command and
81 will use a shell eval to run the command with the URLs passed as
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85 When konqueror is specified by a command line option or a configuration
86 variable, we launch kfmclient to try to open the HTML man page on an
87 already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
88 For consistency, we also try such a trick if browser.konqueror.path is
90 set to something like A_PATH_TO/konqueror. That means we will try to
91 launch A_PATH_TO/kfmclient instead.
92 If you really want to use konqueror, then you can use something like
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97 browser = konq
98 [browser "konq"]
100 cmd = A_PATH_TO/konqueror
101 Note about git-config --global
104 Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
105 the --global flag, for example like this:
106 $ git config --global web.browser firefox
108 as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. See
111 git-config(1) for more information about this.
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114 Written by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org[1]> and the
115 git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>, based on git mergetool by Theodore
116 Y. Ts’o.
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119 Documentation by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org[1]> and the
120 git-list <git@vger.kernel.org[2]>.
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123 Part of the git(1) suite
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126 1. chriscool@tuxfamily.org
127 mailto:chriscool@tuxfamily.org
128 2. git@vger.kernel.org
130 mailto:git@vger.kernel.org
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