Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support building on systems without poll(2)

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:43:35AM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:19, Jonathan Callen [off-list ref] wrote:

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Some systems do not have sys/poll.h or poll(2).  Don't build
git-daemon, git-upload-archive, or git-upload-pack on such systems.

I thought git-upload-pack is required for push support in git?

No, that's send-pack. Upload-pack is the server side of fetching. And
yes, these names are confusing. Before I worked a lot on the send-pack
code, I used to mix them up all the time. :)

So without upload-pack, one cannot be the server side of a fetch. Which
means you can still work as a client, but it does mean that even local
clones won't work (actually, the clone will work due to the local
hardlink optimization, but further fetches will fail).

-Peff