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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-28 14:35:21 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2013-09-28 14:35:21 -0400
commita05cefbd7cdfc75109d8f55c4cb699352745841c (patch)
treea3d10d759b00a2c00340d352827fe9d287bed07c /doc
parent309750f7588d7c9a6eadbdd30b630250f766311f (diff)
Send a git-annex user-agent when downloading urls.
Overridable with --user-agent option. Not yet done for S3 or WebDAV due to limitations of libraries used -- nether allows a user-agent header to be specified. This commit sponsored by Michael Zehrer.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn4
-rw-r--r--doc/git-annex.mdwn4
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn
index c1ccf86c2..0d6bcb05c 100644
--- a/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/importfeed_fails_when_using_the_option_--lazy_for_specific_podcast.mdwn
@@ -71,3 +71,7 @@ HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> switch, and/or to make git-annex set a default user agent header
> of "git-annex", rather than relying on the curl/wget defaults.
> --[[Joey]]
+
+> I've [[done]] what's discussed above, and verified it fixes
+> behavior for this specific server too.
+> --[[Joey]]
diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn
index f0c81f07f..c06d1ffe9 100644
--- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn
+++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn
@@ -824,6 +824,10 @@ subdirectories).
Also, '\\n' is a newline, '\\000' is a NULL, etc.
+* `--user-agent=value`
+
+ Overrides the User-Agent to use when downloading files from the web.
+
* `-c name=value`
Used to override git configuration settings. May be specified multiple times.