On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:07:14PM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote: > > Using Apache in the tests has been the source of frequent portability > > problems and configuration headaches. I do wonder if we'd be better off > > using some small special-purpose web server (even a short perl script > > written around HTTP::Server::Simple or something). > > > > On the other hand, testing against Apache approximates a more real-world > > case, which has value. It might be nice if our tests supported multiple > > web servers, but that would mean duplicating the config for each > > manually. > > I agree that the real-world Apache test is more valuable and I really want > to keep the Linux Apache test running. However, I don't think many people > use macOS as Git web server and therefore I thought it is not worth the > effort to investigate this problem further.
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. :) -Peff
