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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)

+o cygstart (this is the default under Cygwin)

+o 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
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"]
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

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