GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1) Git Manual GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1)NAMEgit-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser
SYNOPSISgit-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
· konqueror (this is the default under KDE)
· w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments)
· links
· lynx
· dillo
· open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI)
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 specify 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 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.
AUTHOR
Written by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and the git-list
<git@vger.kernel.org>, based on git-mergetool by Theodore Y. Ts'o.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation by Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> and the
git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
Part of the git(7) suite
Git 1.5.5.2 10/21/2008 GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1)