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:

       •   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

       -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

       Part of the git(1) suite