From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 13:02:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support building on systems without poll(2)
Message-ID: <20100527130221.GA1672@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikoFSMmAyCYPoejTObEmCMv4TmTDx7P4sdWcOJy@mail.gmail.com>

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

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:19, Jonathan Callen <abcd@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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