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1 #!/bin/sh
2 #
3 # This program launch a web browser on the html page
4 # describing a git command.
5 #
6 # Copyright (c) 2007 Christian Couder
7 # Copyright (c) 2006 Theodore Y. Ts'o
8 #
9 # This file is heavily stolen from git-mergetool.sh, by
10 # Theodore Y. Ts'o (thanks) that is:
11 #
12 # Copyright (c) 2006 Theodore Y. Ts'o
13 #
14 # This file is licensed under the GPL v2, or a later version
15 # at the discretion of Junio C Hamano or any other official
16 # git maintainer.
17 #
18
19 USAGE='[--browser=browser|--tool=browser] [cmd to display] ...'
20
21 # This must be capable of running outside of git directory, so
22 # the vanilla git-sh-setup should not be used.
23 NONGIT_OK=Yes
24 . git-sh-setup
25
26 # Install data.
27 html_dir="@@HTMLDIR@@"
28
29 test -f "$html_dir/git.html" || die "No documentation directory found."
30
31 valid_tool() {
32 case "$1" in
33 firefox | iceweasel | konqueror | w3m | links | lynx | dillo | open)
34 ;; # happy
35 *)
36 return 1
37 ;;
38 esac
39 }
40
41 init_browser_path() {
42 browser_path=`git config browser.$1.path`
43 test -z "$browser_path" && browser_path=$1
44 }
45
46 while test $# != 0
47 do
48 case "$1" in
49 -b|--browser*|-t|--tool*)
50 case "$#,$1" in
51 *,*=*)
52 browser=`expr "z$1" : 'z-[^=]*=\(.*\)'`
53 ;;
54 1,*)
55 usage ;;
56 *)
57 browser="$2"
58 shift ;;
59 esac
60 ;;
61 --)
62 break
63 ;;
64 -*)
65 usage
66 ;;
67 *)
68 break
69 ;;
70 esac
71 shift
72 done
73
74 if test -z "$browser"
75 then
76 for opt in "help.browser" "web.browser"
77 do
78 browser="`git config $opt`"
79 test -z "$browser" || break
80 done
81 if test -n "$browser" && ! valid_tool "$browser"; then
82 echo >&2 "git config option $opt set to unknown browser: $browser"
83 echo >&2 "Resetting to default..."
84 unset browser
85 fi
86 fi
87
88 if test -z "$browser" ; then
89 if test -n "$DISPLAY"; then
90 browser_candidates="firefox iceweasel konqueror w3m links lynx dillo"
91 if test "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" = "true"; then
92 browser_candidates="konqueror $browser_candidates"
93 fi
94 else
95 browser_candidates="w3m links lynx"
96 fi
97 # SECURITYSESSIONID indicates an OS X GUI login session
98 if test -n "$SECURITYSESSIONID"; then
99 browser_candidates="open $browser_candidates"
100 fi
101
102 for i in $browser_candidates; do
103 init_browser_path $i
104 if type "$browser_path" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
105 browser=$i
106 break
107 fi
108 done
109 test -z "$browser" && die "No known browser available."
110 else
111 valid_tool "$browser" || die "Unknown browser '$browser'."
112
113 init_browser_path "$browser"
114
115 if ! type "$browser_path" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
116 die "The browser $browser is not available as '$browser_path'."
117 fi
118 fi
119
120 pages=$(for p in "$@"; do echo "$html_dir/$p.html" ; done)
121 test -z "$pages" && pages="$html_dir/git.html"
122
123 case "$browser" in
124 firefox|iceweasel)
125 # Check version because firefox < 2.0 does not support "-new-tab".
126 vers=$(expr "$($browser_path -version)" : '.* \([0-9][0-9]*\)\..*')
127 NEWTAB='-new-tab'
128 test "$vers" -lt 2 && NEWTAB=''
129 nohup "$browser_path" $NEWTAB $pages &
130 ;;
131 konqueror)
132 case "$(basename "$browser_path")" in
133 konqueror)
134 # It's simpler to use kfmclient to open a new tab in konqueror.
135 browser_path="$(echo "$browser_path" | sed -e 's/konqueror$/kfmclient/')"
136 type "$browser_path" > /dev/null 2>&1 || die "No '$browser_path' found."
137 eval "$browser_path" newTab $pages
138 ;;
139 kfmclient)
140 eval "$browser_path" newTab $pages
141 ;;
142 *)
143 nohup "$browser_path" $pages &
144 ;;
145 esac
146 ;;
147 w3m|links|lynx|open)
148 eval "$browser_path" $pages
149 ;;
150 dillo)
151 nohup "$browser_path" $pages &
152 ;;
153 esac