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Fri, 7 Feb 2025 12:57:05 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Usman Akinyemi Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, christian.couder@gmail.com, Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, johncai86@gmail.com, me@ttaylorr.com, phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, ps@pks.im, rsbecker@nexbridge.com, sunshine@sunshineco.com, Christian Couder Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] agent: advertise OS name via agent capability In-Reply-To: (Usman Akinyemi's message of "Fri, 7 Feb 2025 22:57:19 +0530") References: <20250124122217.250925-7-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> <20250205185246.111447-1-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> <20250205185246.111447-7-usmanakinyemi202@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:57:04 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Usman Akinyemi 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.