Re: [PATCH] http-push: push <remote> :<branch> deletes remote branch

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:17:24PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Clemens Buchacher wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:34:45PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for the patch, I think it good.  Now, if we only had automated 
> > > tests... ;-)
> > 
> > Thank you. Implementing a test should be fairly difficult, since we need 
> > at least a WebDAV capable webserver, right? Do you having something in 
> > mind?
> 
> Actually, thinking about it again, it should not be _that_ difficult.  We 
> would need to ship a httpd.conf.in, pick a port (maybe 8111, because that 
> is already used in t5703-daemon.sh), generate httpd.conf and then start 
> Apache with that.
> 
> If Apache does not want to start, skip this test.  (This might happen due 
> to Apache not being installed, or the DAV modules not being installed, or 
> Apache not finding them, or...)

Except that means coping with the fact that modules are probably not
installed in the same place on all distros, or can have been built in
apache instead of being DSOs, etc.
The server itself doesn't even have the same name across distros (httpd vs.
apache vs. apache2)

Mike