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GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1) Git Manual GIT-WEB--BROWSE(1)

NAME top

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

SYNOPSIS top

   _git web--browse_ [<options>] (<URL>|<file>)...

DESCRIPTION top

   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 top

   -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 top

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..path You can explicitly provide a full path to your preferred browser by setting the configuration variable browser..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..cmd When the browser, specified by options or configuration variables, is not among the supported ones, then the corresponding browser..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 top

   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)](../man1/git-config.1.html) for more information about this.

GIT top

   Part of the [git(1)](../man1/git.1.html) suite

COLOPHON top

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Pages that refer to this page:git-config(1), git-help(1), git-instaweb(1)