xdg-open is a tool similar to git-web--browse. It opens a file or URL in the
user's preferred application. It could probably be made default at least on
Linux with a graphical environment.
Signed-off-by: Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While both GUI and console Cygwin browsers do exist, anecdotal evidence
suggests most users rely on their native Windows browser. cygstart,
which is a long-standing part of the base Cygwin installation, will
cause the page to be opened in the default Windows browser (the one
registered to open .html files).
Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It turns out that the presence of SECURITYSESSIONID is not sufficient
for detecting the presence of a GUI under Mac OS X. SECURITYSESSIONID
appears to only be set when the user has Screen Sharing enabled.
Disabling Screen Sharing and relaunching the shell showed that the
variable was missing, at least under Mac OS X 10.6.8.
On the other hand, TERM_PROGRAM seems to be set for any terminals on
OS X, so just check it is set to something, instead of hardcoding
"Apple_Terminal" and missing other terminals such as iTerm.app.
Signed-off-by: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Using eval causes problems when the URL contains an appropriately
escaped ampersand (\&). Dropping eval from the built-in browser
invocation avoids the problem.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> (test case)
Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On Debian-based distributions, Chromium the browser is available under
the name chromium-browser rather than chromium, to prevent conflicts
with the Chromium B.S.U. game.
Look for chromium-browser first when setting the path for chromium, and
also add chromium-browser as a supported browser name. Document the
dual-name support, and mention the dual-name support for
(google-)chrome too.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The list of supported browsers is also updated in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It was getting too long, and we want to add some more.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Retab and deindent choices in case statements.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
On some systems, the chrome browser is named google-chrome. We add
support for this case.
Signed-off-by: Nathan W. Panike <nathan.panike@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add support for google's chrome & chromium. The value of the
browser is 'chromium' or 'chrome' to select it.
You can always provide config variable for browser path if they
are not installed in right paths.
Signed-off-by: Pavan Kumar Sunkara <pavan.sss1991@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Since OS X 10.6 the variable $SECURITYSESSIONID does not exist anymore,
so lets look for the $TERM_PROGRAM variable as backup.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
msysGit issue 258 tracks a problem opening a browser onto file
paths that contain spaces or parentheses when calling the
web--browse script. This patch modifies how the start command is
called to solve this.
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The previous check in git-web--browse for /bin/start used test -n
/bin/start, which was always true. This lead to "start" being tried
first in the browser list. On systems with upstart installed, "start"
exists and might be in the PATH, but it makes a poor choice for a web
browser. Instead, test that /bin/start exists and is executable.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In the future, I think we should also default to xdg-open on Linux instead
of having a KDE-specific hack.
This patch has been sponsored by Novartis.
Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Currently "git web--browse" is restricted to a set of commands defined
in the script. You can subvert the "browser.<tool>.path" to force "git
web--browse" to use a different command, but if you have a command
whose invocation syntax does not match one of the current tools then
you would have to write a wrapper script for it.
This patch adds a git config variable "browser.<tool>.cmd" which
allows a more flexible browser choice.
If you run "git web--browse" with -t/--tool, -b/--browser or the
"web.browser" config variable set to an unrecognized tool then "git
web--browse" will query the "browser.<tool>.cmd" config variable. 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 added as extra parameters.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
git "config browser.$1.path" should be git config "browser.$1.path"
Signed-off-by: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
These changes were made to the 'init_browser_path' function in
'git-instaweb.sh', but was not in 'git-web--browse.sh'.
[jc: the quoting was screwy and did not quote $1 correctly, so
I fixed it up.]
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There is no good reason to run GUI browsers using "nohup". It does not
solve any real problem but creates annoying "nohup.out" files in every
directory where git help -w is run.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The value of this new command line option will be used as a key to
check the configuration for an help browser.
This should remove the last bit in 'git-help--browse' that was
specific to 'git-help', so that other git command can use
'git-help--browse'.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git-help--browse" helper is to launch a browser of the user's choice
to view the HTML version of git documentation for a given command. It
used to take the name of a command, convert it to the path of the
documentation by prefixing the directory name and appending the
".html" suffix, and start the browser on the path.
This updates the division of labor between the caller in help.c and
git-help--browser helper. The helper is now responsible for launching
a browser of the user's choice on given URLs, and it is the caller's
responsibility to tell it the paths to documentation files.
This is in preparation to reuse the logic to choose user's preferred
browser in instaweb.
The helper had a provision for running it without any command name, in
which case it showed the toplevel "git(7)" documentation, but the
caller in help.c never makes such a call. The helper now exits with a
usage message when no path is given.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The convention for helper scripts has been
git-$TOOL--$HELPER. Since this is a "browse" helper for the
"help" tool, git-help--browse is a more sensible name.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This config variable makes it possible to choose the default format
used to display help. This format will be used only if no option
like -a|--all|-i|--info|-m|--man|-w|--web is passed to "git-help".
The following values are possible for this variable:
- "man" --> "man" program is used
- "info" --> "info" program is used
- "web" --> "git-browse-help" is used
By default we still show help using "man".
This patch also adds -m|--man command line option to use "man"
to allow overriding the "help.format" configuration variable.
Note that this patch also revert some recent changes in
"git-browse-help" because they prevented to look for config
variables in the global configuration file.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The users used to be able to say "git help cat-file" from anywhere, but
the browse-help script insisted to be in a git repository, which caused
"git help -w cat-file" to barf outside. Correct it.
While at it, remove leftover debugging "echo".
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now "git-instaweb" will try to use the browser configured as
"web.browser", if "instaweb.browser" is not set.
"git-browse-help" will check first "help.browser" and then
"web.browser".
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Now when using "git help -w cmd", we will try to show the HTML man
page "git-cmd.html" in your prefered web browser.
To do that "help.c" code will call a new shell script
"git-browse-help".
This currently works only if the HTML versions of the man page
have been installed in $(htmldir) (typically "/usr/share/doc/git-doc"),
so new target to do that is added to "Documentation/Makefile".
The browser to use can be configured using the "web.browser"
config variable.
We try to open a new tab in an existing web browser, if possible.
The code in "git-browse-help" is heavily stolen from "git-mergetool"
by Theodore Y. Ts'o. Thanks.
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rüdiger Sonderfeld