Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] travis-ci: disable GIT_TEST_HTTPD for macOS

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 10, 2016, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20161110215454.zcphqxzkvt4mlpwb@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk2cb57jz.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 01:49:52PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Yes, I recall the IIS one raised and discussed at least twice on the
> list in the past, and it sounded that we want some solution to that.

The patches had some issues. I suspect the population of people who want to run a git server on IIS is relatively small. I am content to wait for somebody who has such a setup to produce a working patch.

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> >   3. What happens when you ask for "foo.git/info/refs" and "foo.git" is
> >      a bundle file (Apache gives you a 404, lighttpd serves the bundle).
> 
> That's a bad one.  Do we want a client-side "I am connecting to a
> site that knows how to talk smart-http" option or something to work
> it around?

It doesn't matter because we don't actually support fetching HTTP bundles via "git fetch" yet.

But I ran it across the issue and did make such a fix when I was implementing that feature long ago. See the discussion of "surprise" in [1] and [2].

Wow, that series is exactly 5 years old today. Have I really been procrastinating on re-rolling it that long? Yikes.

-Peff

[1] http://public-inbox.org/git/20111110075052.GI27950@sigill.intra.peff.net/

[2] http://public-inbox.org/git/20111110075052.GI27950@sigill.intra.peff.net/