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diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index ddbae5b194..278cf73527 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ git-web--browse - git helper script to launch a web browser SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-web--browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ... +'git web--browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -20,25 +20,29 @@ 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) +* konqueror (this is the default under KDE, see 'Note about konqueror' below) * w3m (this is the default outside graphical environments) * links * lynx * dillo * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI) +* start (this is the default under MinGW) Custom commands may also be specified. OPTIONS ------- --b BROWSER|--browser=BROWSER:: +-b BROWSER:: +--browser=BROWSER:: Use the specified BROWSER. It must be in the list of supported browsers. --t BROWSER|--tool=BROWSER:: +-t BROWSER:: +--tool=BROWSER:: Same as above. --c CONF.VAR|--config=CONF.VAR:: +-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. @@ -67,11 +71,33 @@ 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 +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 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 @@ -87,7 +113,7 @@ See linkgit: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. +<git@vger.kernel.org>, based on 'git-mergetool' by Theodore Y. Ts'o. Documentation ------------- @@ -96,4 +122,4 @@ git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. GIT --- -Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |