From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:33:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] travis-ci: disable GIT_TEST_HTTPD for macOS
Message-ID: <xmqq1syj6mvq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20161110161012.jube4bwbww2wa2ew@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> IMHO, the value in the http tests is not testing the server side, but
> the client side. Without being able to set up a dummy HTTP server, we do
> not have any way to exercise the client side of git-over-http at all.
> And people on macOS _do_ use that. :)

Amen to that.

I however do not know what the universally available simplest dummy
HTTP server would be.  There probably are better alternative than
Apache with distro-customized ways of configuration that we have to
adjust.  

A solution around HTTP::Server::Simple sounds attractive but is it
a realistic alternative or too much effort required?  I dunno.