On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 09:14:47AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > As far as code changes in Git, perhaps (assuming my guess is right): > > - drop the redirect of stderr here; the test suite already handles > hiding stderr from the user (without "-v"), and in "-v" mode you > probably would have gotten a useful error like "curl: not found" > > - it's rare but possible to have libcurl installed (which is needed > for the server side, and what we key on for running the httpd tests) > but not the curl binary. This test probably should check for the > existence of the curl binary as a prerequisite. So let's do this before we forget. [1/2]: t5561: drop curl stderr redirects [2/2]: t5561: skip tests if curl is not available t/t5561-http-backend.sh | 10 ++++++++-- t/test-lib.sh | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -Peff