Re: Bug: git web--browse doesn't recognise browser on OS X

From: Timo Sand <timo.j.sand@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 22, 2013, 16:19 UTC
Message-ID: <CAMxBVStVXZGGrjHzN7kukVP6_ZGo0miyJaE2FVYPVV4Jb5U82w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2oR5tnYuw7Nbe-CzGx7fw-OpAFW+reN+1Nroh1jXjfsQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

well my use case is actually that I'm trying to use the gem 'gem-browse' which uses 'git web--browse' I'm not using Apple Terminal, I'm using iTerm2 and there doesn't seem to be a SECURITYSESSIONID set, at least echo didn't find any. But neither did I find it on Apple Terminal either.

What troubles me is that this issue has only arisen recently, earlier this worked fine for me

On 15 March 2013 11:19, Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Timo Sand <timo.j.sand@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I tried to open a website by runnin 'git web--browse http://google.com'
>> and it replied 'No known browser available'.
>
> First git web--browse is a plumbing shell script to display
> documentation on a web browser when you type something like "git help
> -w log".
> It is not really supposed to be used directly by the user. On OS X it
> might be simpler to just type "open http://google.com".
>
> That said there is the following in it to make it work on OS X:
>
> # SECURITYSESSIONID indicates an OS X GUI login session
> if test -n "$SECURITYSESSIONID" \
> -o "$TERM_PROGRAM" = "Apple_Terminal" ; then
> browser_candidates="open $browser_candidates"
> fi
>
> So I guess that you don't have SECURITYSESSIONID set in your terminal
> and you are not using Apple Terminal.
>
> As I am not using OS X, I have no idea how to improve the script in this case.
>
>> I also tried with '--browser=chrome' and '--browser=google-chrome' but
>> the responded with 'The browser chrome is not available as 'chrome'.'
>
> Could you try something like: "chromium http://google.com" or
> "chromium-browser http://google.com"
> If it works, then using 'git web--browse' with '--browser=chromium' or
> '--browser=chromium-browser' should work.
>
> Otherwise did you try "chrome http://google.com" and "google-chrome
> http://google.com"?
>
>> I expected the command to open a new tab in my browser in each of the 3 tries.
>> This has worked for my system before.
>>
>> OS X 10.8.2, git 1.8.2, Google Chrome 27.0.1438.7 dev
>
> Thanks,
> Christian.

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Timo Sand
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