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

From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 15, 2013, 11:19 UTC
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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.