Re: Git Privacy

["nick" <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch>]

nick wrote:
> The time zones reveal private information about developers and they
> don't even serve a use case, as far as I'm aware. A backwards-compatible
> way to solve this leak would be to convert timestamps to UTC by default
> and have a Git config option to revert back to the current behavior.

Come to think of it, even if timezones were converted to UTC by default,
time of day would still leak information about a user's likely timezone.

So based on that and keeping in mind Git's desire for strong
backwards-compatibility, I'm amending my proposal to just a standalone
Git option which would allow for forging timestamp and timezone
information, with timestamp information being forgeable to varying
degrees of granularity.

A new Git option is appropriate because Git doesn't already have
features which make this possible. So it would be necessary to implement
a new option anyways.