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NAME

6       git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser
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SYNOPSIS

9       git web--browse [<options>] (<URL>|<file>)...
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DESCRIPTION

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.
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16       The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported:
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18       •   firefox (this is the default under X Window when not using KDE)
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20       •   iceweasel
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22       •   seamonkey
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26       •   chromium (also supported as chromium-browser)
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30       •   konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see Note about konqueror
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37       •   elinks
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45       •   open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
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53       Custom commands may also be specified.
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OPTIONS

56       -b <browser>, --browser=<browser>
57           Use the specified browser. It must be in the list of supported
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60       -t <browser>, --tool=<browser>
61           Same as above.
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63       -c <conf.var>, --config=<conf.var>
64           CONF.VAR is looked up in the Git config files. If it’s set, then
65           its value specifies the browser that should be used.
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CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

68   CONF.VAR (from -c option) and web.browser
69       The web browser can be specified using a configuration variable passed
70       with the -c (or --config) command-line option, or the web.browser
71       configuration variable if the former is not used.
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73   browser.<tool>.path
74       You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by
75       setting the configuration variable browser.<tool>.path. For example,
76       you can configure the absolute path to firefox by setting
77       browser.firefox.path. Otherwise, git web--browse assumes the tool is
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80   browser.<tool>.cmd
81       When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is
82       not among the supported ones, then the corresponding browser.<tool>.cmd
83       configuration variable will be looked up. If this variable exists then
84       git web--browse will treat the specified tool as a custom command and
85       will use a shell eval to run the command with the URLs passed as
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NOTE ABOUT KONQUEROR

89       When konqueror is specified by a command-line option or a configuration
90       variable, we launch kfmclient to try to open the HTML man page on an
91       already opened konqueror in a new tab if possible.
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93       For consistency, we also try such a trick if browser.konqueror.path is
94       set to something like A_PATH_TO/konqueror. That means we will try to
95       launch A_PATH_TO/kfmclient instead.
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97       If you really want to use konqueror, then you can use something like
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100                   [web]
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103                   [browser "konq"]
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106   Note about git-config --global
107       Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using
108       the --global flag, for example like this:
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112       as they are probably more user specific than repository specific. See
113       git-config(1) for more information about this.
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GIT

116       Part of the git(1) suite
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