From 1658c6149ac4462c874810c760507040122917e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:56:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documention: web--browse: add info about "browser.<tool>.cmd" config var Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/config.txt | 5 +++++ Documentation/git-web--browse.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt index bfad0e38580..ed2cb832b96 100644 --- a/Documentation/config.txt +++ b/Documentation/config.txt @@ -420,6 +420,11 @@ branch.<name>.rebase:: it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). +browser.<tool>.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.<tool>.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 df57d010e5d..ddbae5b1947 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.<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 git config --global +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + Note that these configuration variables should probably be set using the '--global' flag, for example like this: