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diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index 5aec4ecffb..8d162b56c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-web--browse - Git helper script to launch a web browser SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git web{litdd}browse' [OPTIONS] URL/FILE ... +'git web{litdd}browse' [<options>] <url|file>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported: * 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. @@ -61,14 +62,14 @@ 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' +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, +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{litdd}browse' assumes the tool is available in PATH. @@ -78,21 +79,21 @@ 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 +`browser.<tool>.cmd` configuration variable will be looked up. If this variable exists then 'git web{litdd}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 +NOTE ABOUT KONQUEROR -------------------- -When 'konqueror' is specified by a command line option or a +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. +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: @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ Note about git-config --global ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using -the '--global' flag, for example like this: +the `--global` flag, for example like this: ------------------------------------------------ $ git config --global web.browser firefox |