mercurial/crew at 6286: 7 outgoing changesets

[Matt Mackall]

On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 14:27 -0700, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> >> summary:     Change User-agent field in client to have a lot more info.
> > 
> > I explicitly rejected this patch when it first came up and nothing's
> > changed since then.
> 
> My bad.  I didn't see the rejection, and the patch seems innocuous to
> me.  Want it backed out?

Most privacy leaks do indeed seem innocuous. And most are extremely
useful to folks on the server side too, though their definition of
useful may be very different than the client's.

If we look at Firefox, they've grown dozens of settings to deal with the
bad privacy defaults they chose early on, and a bunch of separate tools
(anonymizer, privoxy) have grown up around it. But as lots of things now
depend on those defaults, they're hard to get rid of.

I'd rather not have to add a bunch of config options for this stuff, nor
have users have to even worry about the trade-offs. So I think if we're
going to expose any client data, we'd better have a careful discussion
about the particulars. So yes, let's revert this for now.

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