From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 05:40:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] Turn `git serve` into a test helper
Message-ID: <xmqq36mhkx3z.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20190417034621.GA19448@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> I do not personally think, as the design of v2 stands, a standalone
>> "serve" server that "can serve anything as long as it goes over
>> protocol v2" makes much sense, but perhaps those who have been doing
>> the v2 work may have different ideas, in which case let's hear what
>> their plans are.
>
> I too would like to hear more definite comments from people who think
> git-serve is worth keeping. In the meantime, there's some discussion
> from this thread in December:
> ...
>   https://public-inbox.org/git/20181213195305.249059-1-jonathantanmy@google.com/
>
> (In case you do not feel like reading the whole thing, my opinion there
> is that git-serve is probably not the right direction, and we would do
> well to demote it as Dscho's patch does).

I guess we are more or less on the same page, then.  I'll let others
chime in by waiting for a bit more but I won't wait forever ;-).

Thanks.