How can I prevent RStudio Server from overriding GIT_ASKPASS on startup?

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With Rstudio-server 2023.12.0 Build 369 on ubuntu 20.04, I am trying to set the GIT_ASKPASS environment variable for the Rstudio session.

I have tried setting it in the Renviron.site file as well as in ~/.Renviron. I also tried setting it to the value I need in ~/.Rprofile and in ~/.bashrc.

In all cases I see that what I set it to gets overridden somewhere in the RStudio startup, such that in the R console in RStudio if I run Sys.getenv('GIT_ASKPASS') I get rpostback-askpass , which is NOT the value that I set it to or that I need.

I see that my code in ~/.Rprofile runs on startup, and I even print there a message with the value that I need (after setting it there with Sys.setenv(GIT_ASKPASS='my_special_value')). Nevertheless, in the R console GIT_ASKPASS still evaluates to rpostback-askpass, and in the terminal window in RStudio it seems that GIT_ASKPASS somehow is not set at all.

Clearly something in the RStudio Server startup sequence is overriding the value I set for GIT_ASKPASS after Renviron.site, ~/.Renviron, ~/.Rprofile etc. all run.

How can I prevent RStudio Server from overriding the value that I set for GIT_ASKPASS ?

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I don't think it is currently possible to prevent RStudio Server from overriding GIT_ASKPASS, c.f. https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/c9f73306119c4b44a00649b7bea2f6aa16b88ffe/src/cpp/session/modules/SessionGit.cpp#L3400
What is it you are trying to achieve?

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