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Søren Løvborg
db: drop length limits on TEXT columns

As of the upgrade to version 1.0 in 3c4b6ddf6735, SQLAlchemy began to
pass TEXT length limits to the database during table creation. Such
limits are however not supported by SQLite, MySQL nor PostgreSQL, and
while SQLite simply ignores it, it is a syntax error in PostgreSQL,
breaking the creation of new PostgreSQL databases. With the lengths
being unused and quite arbitrary, just drop them.
.. _locking:

==================
Repository locking
==================

Kallithea has a *repository locking* feature, disabled by default. When
enabled, every initial clone and every pull gives users (with write permission)
the exclusive right to do a push.

When repository locking is enabled, repositories get a ``locked`` flag.
The hg/git commands ``hg/git clone``, ``hg/git pull``,
and ``hg/git push`` influence this state:

- A ``clone`` or ``pull`` action locks the target repository
  if the user has write/admin permissions on this repository.

- Kallithea will remember the user who locked the repository so only this
  specific user can unlock the repo by performing a ``push``
  command.

- Every other command on a locked repository from this user and every command
  from any other user will result in an HTTP return code 423 (Locked).
  Additionally, the HTTP error will mention the user that locked the repository
  (e.g., “repository <repo> locked by user <user>”).

Each repository can be manually unlocked by an administrator from the
repository settings menu.