From: Christian Couder Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:56:53 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Documention: web--browse: add info about "browser..cmd" config var X-Git-Tag: v1.5.5-rc0~14 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1658c6149ac4462c874810c760507040122917e8;p=git.git Documention: web--browse: add info about "browser..cmd" config var Signed-off-by: Christian Couder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index bfad0e385..ed2cb832b 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -420,6 +420,11 @@ branch..rebase:: it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). +browser..cmd:: + Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The + specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed + as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web--browse[1].) + browser..path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a diff --git a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt index df57d010e..ddbae5b19 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-web--browse.txt @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ The following browsers (or commands) are currently supported: * dillo * open (this is the default under Mac OS X GUI) +Custom commands may also be specified. + OPTIONS ------- -b BROWSER|--browser=BROWSER:: @@ -43,16 +45,35 @@ OPTIONS 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..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 git config --global +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using the '--global' flag, for example like this: