Usman Akinyemi <usmanakinyemi202@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I was actually thinking about this inside the bathroom when it
> occurred to me that,
> according to the current implementation, GIT_USER_AGENT will not allow the user
> to specify an empty string at all. It is either you specify some value
> or we decide for
> you.
Yes. GIT_USER_AGENT=ImNotTellingYou would work just fine for
privacy concious folks.
> I think we can add the config at a level that can disable the
> agent capability completely
> instead of only tweaking the (os) part.
Yes, go back to a few messages you received from me earlier; it is
already there ;-)
If we were to give them an improvement in the area for privacy
features, I would think it would be to add a configuration variable
to turn the agent off, instead of having to leave GIT_USER_AGENT
environment variable set in the environment of their processes.
