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

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:13:44AM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:

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If you did want to have a more real-world network-based test, I think
the right solution is not for GitHub to set up a bunch of mock servers,
but to design client-side tests that hit the _real_ GitHub (or GitLab,
or whatever) and perform some basic operations. OTOH, people running
"master" (or "next", etc) are doing that implicitly every day.

That is actually a neat idea. We could setup a test repo on each of the major 
Git hosting sites and then the TravisCI run could clone a repo and push
changes to it. That shouldn't take long and would probably be a good real
world test.

The credentials of these repos could be stored encrypted in Travis CI [1].

Where would such a test repo live on github.com? On github.com/git or would
you prefer a separate organization? (no worries, I am not going to tackle this
anytime soon -- too many things in my backlog already).

I think I'd prefer for it to live outside of the "git" organization
entirely, if only because it's credentials will be necessarily less
secure. It would be nice if people could point the suite at their own
user/repo, too, so they can run it outside of travis.

BTW: I just noticed https://github.com/git/hello-world ... is this legitimate
or did someone hack github.com/git? :)

Hmm. I wondered myself. There's no audit record of who created it, but
the creation timestamp is from 2008-07-23, which predates a lot of the
logging. So offhand, I'd say the likely explanation is "Scott Chacon
experimenting".

It's probably worth cleaning out now, though.

-Peff